The Team

Justa Niemand

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

PUBLISHING

During her eighteen-year career as an academic publisher, Justa worked with a wide variety of authors, publications, departments and institutions in the Higher Education sector. She was responsible for the commissioning, development, production, marketing and project management of numerous leading academic and professional publications. During her publishing career, she gained extensive experience and knowledge of the entire sphere of publishing for the tertiary and professional market at major publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill Book Company, Macmillan-SA, Southern Book Publishers, Juta & Company and Van Schaik Publishers.

Ryal de Waal

Financial Director

Ryal matriculated at Volkskool Heidelberg (Gauteng) in 1983. He started working at the Land and Agricultural Bank of SA in 1984 and then went to Potchefstroom for military training in July 1984. He completed his military training at the Artillery School and attained the rank of lieutenant in 1985.

He continued with the Land Bank after military training and started part time studies in 1987. Ryal completed his B.Accounting degree part time in four years and B.Acc (Hons) in 1991. He started his articles at Coopers Theron du Toit (now PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC) in 1992 in Pretoria and also passed SAICA’s board exams in the same year, continued with his articles at PwC Stellenbosch and qualified as Chartered Accountant at the end of 1994. Ryal was appointed as Audit Manager at PwC, but then accepted a Financial Manager’s position at Tydstroom Poultry Farm, a division of Pioneer Foods (then Bokomo) in 1996.

Wikus van Zyl

Manager and Publisher - SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein

Wilna Oosthuizen

Manager - SUN MeDIA MeTRO

Nelda Titus

Production Manager - SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch

Marie-Louise Florence

Book Sales - SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch

Jean Goussard

Manager at Tygerberg - SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch