Board of Directors
Bonsile Ndlangamandla is the Director of Cultural Heritage for the Eswatini National Trust Commission a government parastatal mandated with the conservation of both natural and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Her area of expertise in research and has published journal articles on the history of missionary medicine in Eswatini. She is the curator for the Eswatini National Museum, the focal point for two UNESCO conventions and part-time lecture at the University of Eswatini, in the History Department.
Bob Forrester
Director of the Swazi Archaeological Research Association
thebobforrester@gmail.com
Bob Forrester is a Heritage Consultant in Eswatini with a background in archaeology and has designed and created three museums in Eswatini.
He is the Heritage Advisor to the Eswatini National Trust Commission and National Museum.He has authored written books on Eswatini ranging from archaeology to archival photos and from art to tourism, and co-authored several others.
Sindisiwe Nxumalo has a Master’s degree in sociology with special reference to qualitative research from Goldsmith’s College, University of London obtained in 1994. She has over thirty years’ working experience on community development projects in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Key attributes have been the design of Social Impact Assessments, Stakeholder Engagement Plans and inputs into Resettlement Action Plans. Sindisiwe has worked extensively with local experts such as bio-physical environmentalists as well as cultural and resettlement experts.
Mbongeni Dlamini
Director of the Swazi Archaeological Research Association
Mbongeni Dlamini trained in Fine Art and Environmental Science and has been walking and researching landscapes for the last fifteen years. His praxis involves exploring Eswatini on foot in order to embody acentered and non-hierarchical networks of ecology, identity, motility and conflict. This exploration is political, spatial and temporal, engaging with the shifting territories and truly vast timeframes that constitute the region.
Fanele Chester
Director of the Swazi Archaeological Research Association
Fanele Chester is the founder of the Knowledge Institute, a voluntary-based NGO which has helped people from Eswatini access higher education opportunities in Africa and beyond. She is also the chair of UWC Eswatini, which facillitates scholarships to the prestigious high school completion program in UWC colleges around the world. She is an alumni of the University of Chicago and UWC Red Cross Nordic, and is currently a student at University of Oxford. She is passionate about history, art, hiking and photography and has a collection of rare books on Swazi history.
Scientific Advisors
Dr. Jörg Linstädter
Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures
joerg.linstaedter@dainst.de
Jörg Linstädter is a German prehistoric archaeologist. His area of expertise is the archaeology of Africa with a focus on Late Stone Age and transitions from hunter-gatherers to food production. He has field experience in various African countries such as Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Ghana, South Africa, Mozambique and Eswatini. His research results have been published in over 100 scientific and popular science articles. He currently holds the position of Leading Director of the Commission for the Archaeology of Non-European Cultures at the German Archaeological Institute.
Dr. Brandi MacDonald
MacDonaldB@missouri.edu
Brandi MacDonald is the Assistant Research Professor at the Archaeometry Research Laboratory at MURR. Her research focuses on provenance studies, in Eswatini this has resulted in Neutron Activation Analysis studies, using the MURR nuclear reactor, linking ochre sources, rock art and the temporal and spatial distribution of excavated ochre. She is the editorial manager of the journal Archaeometry.
Dr. Gregor Bader
University of Tübingen
gregor-donatus.bader@uni-tuebingen.de
Dr. Gregor Bader is a Prehistoric Archaeologist at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is an Associate Researcher with the Palaeo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research is focused on the African Middle and Later Stone Age. In addition Gregor is in charge of the archaeological collection housed at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology and the Material Culture Laboratory at the University of Tübingen.
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