Professor Pitika Ntuli

Founder & Director

Professor Pitika Ntuli is an internationally acclaimed South African sculptor, poet, philosopher, and educator whose practice explores African spirituality, identity, and the enduring legacy of colonialism.

Working across bone, bronze, metal, stone, wood, and found objects, his sculptures honour and interrogate African traditions with unflinching depth.

An accomplished poet and public intellectual, his writing reclaims African dignity through language and form. Exhibited widely in South Africa and internationally, his work is a vital reference point for artists, scholars, and activists. He is the intellectual anchor of the Ntuli Foundation, guiding its work through the philosophy of UBuSuSu.

Antoinette Ntuli

Founder & Director

Antoinette Ntuli is a writer, poet, and cultural producer whose forty-year collaboration with Professor Pitika Ntuli has been central to shaping their shared artistic, intellectual, and spiritual journey.

Based in the UK for many years, she organised pop-up exhibitions and community programming, drawing on her background in health promotion, anti-racist training, and group work.

A committed social justice practitioner, she chaired the Global Equity Gauge Alliance for three years.

Through her writing and critical practice, she reflects on questions of economic and cultural power within African contexts, serving as custodian of the Foundation’s living archive, transmitting knowledge across generations.

Ruzy Rusike

Executive Director

Ruzy Rusike is a curator, researcher, and arts leader whose practice engages African modernism, heritage, and museum futures through exhibition-making, archival research, and international collaboration. She holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London, UCT9s Michaelis School of Fine Art, and the University of the Witwatersrand. She serves as Director of the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art (SAFFCA) contributing to research, collection stewardship, and programme development across the continent and internationally. As Executive Director of the Ntuli Foundation, she is committed to fostering the conditions for cross-cultural exchange, belonging, and collective meaning-making.

Viwe Mgedezi

Director

Viwe Mgedezi is a knowledge management executive and researcher whose work interrogates the limitations of Western-oriented knowledge frameworks in Sub-Saharan African contexts. She serves as Executive Manager for Knowledge Management at the Gautrain Management Agency, where she has led institutional conversations on transgenerational knowledge sharing and the wisdom held by senior women. She holds multiple qualifications from the University of the Witwatersrand and has co-authored published academic case studies on African strategic leadership. Her commitment to context-relevant, community-rooted knowledge systems — and to recovering what risks being lost between generations — makes her a natural custodian of the Ntuli Foundation’s mission.

Se Taylor

Administrator

Se Taylor is the Administrator of the Ntuli Foundation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and grew up in a household shaped by art, culture, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge. She approaches the Foundation with a global rather than a purely continental lens, engaging art, language, culture, history, and heritage through an Afrocentric perspective. Her background grounds her firmly in the core pillars of the organisation and informs her commitment to this work as both a professional practice and a personal calling.

Jonathan Kamanga

Studio Manager

Being an Artist is easy what's difficult is being easy”

Lesego Mokgotho

Assistant Manager

”Being an Artist is easy what’s difficult is being easy.”