Andrew Massyn (Secretary)
Andrew graduated from UCT with a degree in law and did his articles in 1989. He worked as a prosecutor for two years before establishing his own legal practice in Rondebosch. Andrew was actively involved in GASA 6010 and was that organisation’s last chairman before it disbanded and donated its assets to ASSET. Andrew thus played an active role in the development of Triangle Project. Andrew was also actively involved in the Equality foundation as well as COGS (Cape Organisation of Gay Sports) for many years. He has lectured to members of the police force on sexual discrimination and diversity and is a part-time lecturer at Varsity College (UNISA) in Law. Andrew has been an informal consultant attorney to Triangle Project’s health services manager for 6 years. Andrew is the secretary of the Pride Shelter Trust.
Glenn de Swardt (Founding Member, Director)
Glenn is the Project Director of Health4Men, a project of the Anova Health Institute.
Ian McMahon (Chairperson)
Ian has been involved with Pride since 1996 in many forms, from initially chairing Johannesburg's Pride to being involved in Cape Town Pride since 2001. He has been involved with TOGS (The Organisation of Gay Sports) since 1998 as PRO and is currently co-chair and Togs' representative (Delegate Director) to the Federation of Gay Games. In this capacity Ian is one of only two African delegates on this international gay sports body that is the license holder for the Gay Games. Ian chaired Cape Town’s Pride parade in 2001, and has been Chairman of Cape Town Pride since 2004. Ian is the Group I.T Director of the Spur Steak Ranches Group of restaurants as well as having other business interests.
Ian is the Treasurer of the Pride Shelter Trust.
Prof Lorna Martin
Professor Lorna Martin is a specialist forensic pathologist for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape and Head of Department of the Division of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at the University of Cape Town. Lorna’s work has included a 1999 study on rape homicide in the Western Cape and a recently completed national female murder study with the Medical Research Council. She was responsible for the development of the country’s first medico-legal protocol for the management of rape survivors. This protocol has now been adopted for national implementation by the South African Department of Health. Her work aims to go beyond the immediate academic environment to develop formative partnerships in the health sector that have ensured that violence against women has been prioritised as a major public health concern. Over the past 10 years she has been a pivotal advocate in ensuring that levels of awareness have been raised about violence against women and included in both the teaching and research programmes of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
