CONTRIBUTORS
GAVIN MULVENNA
Gavin graduated cum laude with an honours
degree from the then University of Natal in
1998. He went on to complete an advanced
labour law programme, with distinction, and
a law degree at the University of South
Africa. He was admitted as an attorney
for Anglo American Gold Division. Gavin
established Povey Mulvenna and Associates
and, as the managing director, he heads the
Information Services Division and specialises
in labour law, industrial relations, consulting
and legal work. Gavin excels in labour
legislation interpretation, negotiations,
mediation and conflict resolution.
of the High Court in 2000 and gained
broader human and international resources
experience in the mining industry, working
JEFF GILMOUR Jeff is the president of the Association of
For the last 20 years, Jeff has been assisting Community Associations Institute SA (CAISA)
networking bodies, national committees
and stakeholder groupings, sector training
authorities, national standards bodies,
government departments and employer
bodies in areas of collaboration, generation
of national standards and qualifications, and
formalisation of agreements for purposes of
harmony, legislation and common purpose.
JOHN COCKAYNE
John Cockayne has been involved with the
business of golf for almost 40 years. He
has held stints in various roles including
head professional and director of golf at
a number of clubs in South Africa, and
tournament official on the PGA Sunshine
Residential Communities (ARC), founder of the
and executive member of the Residential
Community Council (RCC). He is also a
member of The World Congress of Community
Association Management (TWCCAM) and the
Foundation of International Community
Associations Research. He received the CAI
Rising Star award in 2010 for Community
Association Leadership.
Circuit as well as managing his own event He has had permanent roles at several
management and business consultancy. clubs in South Africa and in golf projects
He has written extensively and has been and businesses at 11 golf estates on three
a contributor and columnist for some of continents. This has involved taking on a
South Africa’s best-known golf publications. wide variety of roles from strategic inputs
John has also developed two sets of copy and general management to marketing,
on golf instruction titled What’s Golf Got To event management, project head, team
Do With It? and How To Practise Less More leader and tournament director for various
Often, both of which have been produced regional and national events in South Africa.
in serial form in various golf publications John is currently the golf editor for Estate
and national newspapers, both in South Living the residential community’s official
Africa and the Gulf. publication, and works as ARC’s specialist
golf consultant. As a result of his dedicated
Unlike those who are often pigeonholed as contribution to the game of golf, he was
having a purely armchair-style, literary or recently made a Founder Life Member of
academic approach to the game, John’s the PGA of South Africa.
writing is matched by hands-on practical
experience on the grass face (as it were).
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