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Garth is a medical doctor. After having been part of the founding team behind the health promotion and social change project Soul City, in 2002, Garth decided to use the successful recipe of edutainment for change to turn the spotlight onto the universal values that all South Africans profess to share, but are not always evident in the lives they live. That was the beginning of the Mass Media Project, now known as Heartlines. Garth is the CEO and chief ideas man behind the work that we do.

One value he believes the world needs most: Honesty

"When people are not honest in their dealings and steal, it not only leads to poor or no service delivery but it also reduces people’s confidence in the country. The end result is greater unemployment, less money for services and greater poverty and suffering."

Derek is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and spent thirty years in the banking industry in a variety of executive positions. He was head of Corporate Banking at Nedbank for over ten years. He has been with Heartlines since 2007 in the role of Chief Financial Officer. Derek is a Board member of a number of non-profit entities, and retired in 2019 as Chair of the Nedbank Foundation Trust, the CSI arm of the Nedbank group.

In addition to his CFO role, Derek heads up the Heartlines Consulting team. 

Nevelia is a savvy and highly-skilled media and communications specialist. She has a background in anthropology and magazine publishing and heads up the Heartlines media and communications team. 

One value she believes the world needs most: Love
"Love, in its truest form, as that will cancel out so many other social ills, such as envy, greed, selfishness, hatred, etc."

Thabisa keeps the Heartlines ship afloat with her administrative brilliance and her commitment to caring for everyone on our team. 

One value she believes the world needs most: Self-control. 
"Regardless of what you do – whether it involves a physical act or a mental decision, must be maintained to produce desirable results."

Olefile Masangane is a programme manager and facilitator passionate about social cohesion and coming alongside communities in coming up with homegrown solutions.

He has found Heartlines to be an amazing platform for him to live out this passion.

One value he believes the world needs most: Future-mindedness.
"Future-mindedness, as we all caught up in immediacy."

Brian currently oversees the church mobilisation team that is responsible for the roll out of Heartlines programmes into churches.

Brian enjoys people, training and writing. He has a long history of involvement with youth and is passionate about finding creative ways to serve the church.

One value he believes the world needs most: Integrity 
"A lack of integrity destroys relationships and deprives people of wealth, education, jobs and security. When integrity is restored, business and government will succeed – relationships will be restored; people will be at peace with themselves."

Find out more about What's Your Story? here. 

One value she believes the world needs most: Honesty. 
"It underpins all values important for a cohesive society. If we were honest, firstly with ourselves, imagine what a free life we would all live. If one cannot be honest with oneself, how can one be honest with others?"

Find out more about our Values & Money project here. 

Lara is a recovering banker and management consultant. She is a curious self-starter who is guided by a desire to leave the world better than she found it. She is the founder of an integrative nutrition company, Rush Nutrition (whose mantra is to turn the tide on chronic disease). Through her work at Heartlines she has come to realise that disease is not just physical, it is a state of mind and she is passionate about giving people the spiritual, ethical and values-based tools to heal – holistically – at an individual level and as a country.