ZSSA Office Bearers 2023 - 2025
The affairs of the Zoological Society of South Africa are run by a management committee of honorary and council members elected every two years by the members of the ZSSA. The current council members are:

Prof Aliza le Roux
PRESIDENT
University of Free State Qwaqwa Campus
VICE-PRESIDENT
Position vacant

Prof Andre Ganswindt
PAST PRESIDENT
Director: Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria

Prof Colleen Downs
HONORARY TREASURER
SARChI Research Chair in Ecosystem health and biodiversity in KwaZulu Natal and the Eastern Cape
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Dr Sandi Willows-Munro
ASSISTANT TO THE TREASURER
Lecturer: Conservation Genetics Lab, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Dr Carolyn Baker
HONORARY EDITOR
South African Sugarcane Research Institute

Prof Theresa Wossler
HONORARY EDITOR
Associate professor: Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University

Dr Leigh Richards
REPRESENTATIVE EXTERNAL BODIES
Curator of Mammals, Durban Natural Science Museum

Dr Sarita Maree
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON
Post-doctoral Fellow in the DST/NRF SARChI Chair of Mammalian Behavioral Ecology & Physiology, Department of Zoology & Entomology,
and The Molecular Ecology & Evolution Program, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria

Dr Seth Eiseb
SADC REPRESENTATIVE
Senior Lecturer: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Namibia

Prof Michael Cherry
ADVISORY MEMBER
Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University

Ms Loraine Shuttleworth
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Dr. Iva Prikrylova
Senior Researcher;Â NRF SARChI Chair;Â Department of Biodiversity University of Limpopo

Dr Ute Schwaibold
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Wits University

Dr Melissa Boonzaaier-Davids
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and assistant curator (Marine Invertebrates) at the Iziko South African Museum

Dr Lelethu Heshula
Dept of Zoology and Entomology, University of Fort Hare

Dr Ntuthuko Masikane

MSc Zoology
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria