Hylton Appelbaum

Hylton Appelbaum is a trustee of Kagiso Trust, which was established by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev Beyers Naude, Prof Jakes Gerwel and other leaders during the height of mass mobilisation and popular participation in the struggle against apartheid for the purpose of channeling funds from the European Community’s Special Programme for the Victims of Apartheid. Since 1986 Kagiso Trust has injected over R 1,5 billion of grant funds into various development projects in the fields of training, health, education, small business development and agriculture across the county. Over the past 17 years Kagiso Trust has pioneered the promotion of sustainable development and has become a leader in black economic empowerment ventures. Hylton was one of the founding directors of Kagiso Trust Investment Company and is a director of its listed subsidiary, Kagiso Media Limited. Mr. Appelbaum helped to start DET (Disability Employment Trust), the South African disability movement’s economic empowerment investment vehicle, although he does not sit on its board.

In the educational arena Hylton is a director of Learning Channel. He founded, and is Chairman of, the Mindset Network (a nonprofit section 21 company). Mindset broadcasts a range of television channels with print and Internet support delivering free schooling and health broadcast services across Africa. Hylton is Executive Trustee of The Donald Gordon Foundation, a family foundation established in 1971 and today one of the largest private philanthropies in Africa and is a trustee of The Liberty Life Educational Foundation. He is a member of Council of the University of The Witwatersrand.

Hylton is a member of PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Corporate Social Responsibility Board and is a trustee, and judge, of the national Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust and a trustee of the Helen Suzman Foundation. He is also a trustee of The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Hylton recently resigned as Chairman of Classic FM South Africa which he founded in 1997. He recently also resigned from the board of Liberty Holdings Limited after countless years of service. Mr. Appelbaum received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.