Meet our Ambassadors
AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME
A Children's Hospital Trust Ambassador is a public representative who shares the Trust's vision of helping sick children in southern Africa to receive the best medical care. Ambassadors are friends to the sick children at the Hospital and come from a variety of high-profile professions, but they all have certain qualities in common – and are considered role models within the eyes of the local community and the general public.
A Trust Ambassador also possesses personal integrity in line with the Trust's proud history of strong ethics. Ambassadors have leadership qualities and understand the reason for maintaining the existence of the Hospital. Ambassadors visit the Hospital to spend quality time with the little patients – some of whom spend months at a time in Hospital. The Trust is unable to reimburse Ambassadors for their contributions – but we hope that they will enjoy other immeasurable benefits that come from helping such a worthy cause... such as spiritual growth, personal inspiration and life enrichment.
JP DUMINY
In 2009 JP Duminy was selected as the first ever Trust Ambassador. While JP continues to excel on the cricket pitch he will now extend his responsibilities to helping sick children who are treated at the Hospital. JP will act as a public representative for the Children's Hospital Trust and attend high profile fundraising events and spend quality time visiting the Hospital's brave patients.
“I love playing cricket and am grateful that I can play sport as a profession. I have been blessed with great opportunities as a result of playing cricket and I really wanted to give something back. I hope that as a Trust Ambassador I will help make it possible for sick children to get better and get back to enjoying sport themselves,” says JP Duminy.
CLEM SUNTER
Clem Sunter was born in Suffolk, England on 8th August 1944 and was educated at Winchester College. He went to Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics before joining Charter Consolidated as a management trainee in 1966.
In 1971, he moved to Lusaka in Zambia to work for Anglo American Corporation Central Africa. From there he was transferred in 1973 to the Head Office of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in Johannesburg. He spent most of his subsequent career in the Gold and Uranium Division, serving as its Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996. At the time it was the largest gold producer in the world. He was until recently Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund, which in a recent survey was rated the premier corporate social responsibility fund in South Africa.
In the early 1980s, he established a scenario planning function in Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg. Two members were Pierre Wack and Ted Newland who previously headed up the scenario planning department at Royal Dutch Shell and then acted as consultants to Anglo for over a decade (after their retirement from Shell). Using material from these teams, Mr. Sunter put together a presentation entitled 'The World and South Africa in the 1990s' which became very popular in South Africa in the mid-1980s. In it, two scenarios were offered for South Africa: the 'High Road' of negotiation leading to a political settlement and the 'Low Road' of confrontation leading to a civil war and a wasteland. South Africa took the High Road. Two highlights for Clem were a presentation to FW de Klerk and the Cabinet in 1986 and a visit to Nelson Mandela in prison to discuss the future just before his release.
Since 1987, he has authored 14 books some of which have been bestsellers. His other main interest is seeking to mobilise the private sector in the war against HIV/AIDS.
He was recently awarded an Honourary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town for his work in the field of scenario planning. He was also voted by leading South African CEOs as the speaker who has made the most significant contribution to, and impact on, best practice and business in South Africa. In 2006, he was invited to give a scenario presentation at the Central Party School in Beijing - a rare privilege for a foreigner. He also facilitated sessions on global warming in New Delhi and London.
Mr. Sunter married Margaret Rowland in 1969 and they have one daughter and two sons. His hobbies include music and golf.
