Day 2 Session 5

After spending three years researching the dysfunctional food system in South Africa and exposing many misleading claims, Sonia Mountford launched EATegrity at the end of 2015, helping you find integrity in the food chain.

Enthusiastic about guiding and informing consumers through media, talks and social media, Mountford believes in growing an informed consumer voice who seeks traceable transparency to encourage meaningful change in our food system.  She helped develop the groundbreaking Eat Out Sustainable Restaurant Award and is a judge for this award, which is now in its third year.

Having worked with emerging and small-scale farmers, she understands the concerns and constraints of lack of support and access to market.  She is a strong promoter of Agroecology for a healthier, more equitable, more sustainable food system that enables nutritional food security for all.

She is highly critical of inauthentic solutions to our broken food system as is keenly aware of the ripple effect this has on the time spent on meaningful change for human health, livelihoods of farmers, environmental health, livestock conditions, food justice and social justice.

Mountford also consults with farmers, producers and retailers, beginning to assist them with Traceable Transparency to help them achieve and get their authentic sustainable claims noticed by consumers.

Her opinions can be viewed on her twitter account @EATegrity_Sonia and some of her work on www.eategrity.co.za

With a background in chemistry and microbiology, Linda Jackson began her career working in quality control and quality assurance in food manufacturing.  She holds a M. Tech in Environmental health, specialising in food safety from the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Linda has assisted many food manufacturing companies with the implementation of ISO 9001, HACCP and FSSC 22000. She has audited many suppliers on behalf of major retailers and conducted thousands of hours of food safety training at all levels. She pioneered food safety auditor training in South Africa having developed the first SAATCA registered course. She has conducted IRCA registered training for several certification bodies including BSi – South Africa and BSi – Qatar.

She started FoodFocus in 2016 with two friends Bridget day and Adele Krogh and its been a great journey helping the food industry which is a shared passion, using a digital platform.

Reatile Tekateka is the Managing Partner at Joe Public Engage, the public relations agency within the integrated marketing communications agency Joe Public United. The agency was recently named Agency of the Year at the 2018 Loeries awards ceremony held in August.

Reatile has 13 years of experience gained across various industries and geographies. She has worked across the African continent representing some of its biggest brands.

Reatile has held senior communications roles within and consulted to a number of leading multi-nationals across a number of industries including Financial Services, FMCG and TMT.  She was Head of Group Communications at Liberty Group and African broadcast network Econet Media Broadcast (Kwese).

Reatile holds a MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).