Office Bearers
Council Members
  • President (2026-2028) - Ms Mary Leslie
  • Vice-President (2026-2028) - Prof. Tim Forssman
  • Honorary Secretary - Dr Amanda Esterhuysen
  • Honorary Treasurer – Nicholas Wiltshire
  • Co-opted Member - Malefeu Lethuba, Student Representative 
  • Non-Branch Members’ Representative – Gemma Poretti
  • KwaZulu-Natal Branch Council Member – Dr Tim Maggs
  • Trans-!Garib Branch Council Member – Dr David Morris
  • Northern Branch Council Members – William Murray, Assoc. Prof. Justin Bradfield
  • Northern Branch Representative in Cape Town – Dr Amanda Esterhuysen
  • Western Cape Branch Council Members – Patricia Groenewald, Sonia McGregor

Editors
  • The Digging Stick – Reinoud Boers
  • South African Archaeological Bulletin - Dr Justin Pargeter: Editor in Chief

Assistant Secretary - Colleen Liell-Cock

Previous Office Bearers

PRESIDENTS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
1945/6 Col. W.E. Hardy
1946/7 Dr Alex L. du Toit
1947/48 Abbe Henri Breuil
1948/9 Dr John Hewitt
1949 Dr C.H.T.D. Heese
1949/50 Dr J. Desmond Clark
1950 Prof. Raymond A. Dart
1951 Dr H.B.S. Cooke
1952 Prof. Clarence (‘Peter’) van Riet Lowe
1953 Dr Neville Jones
1954 J. F. Schofield
1955 B.D. Malan
1956 Prof. M.R. Drennan
1957 Roger F. Summers
1958 Guy A. Gardner
1959 Prof. A.J.H. Goodwin
1960/61 Dr Louis S.B. Leakey
1961/62 Prof. Ronald Singer
1962/63 Dr John T. Robinson
1963/64 Keith R. Robinson
1964/65 Prof. Phillip V. Tobias
1965/66 Prof. Raymond R. Inskeep
1966/67 Dr Revil J. Mason
1967/68 C.K. Cooke
1968/70 Dr C.K. Brain
1970/71 Prof. Lawrence H. Wells
1972/73  Alex R. Willcox
1974/75 Dr Oliver Davies
1976/77 Jalmar Rudner
1978/79 Prof. E.M. van Zinderen Bakker
1980/82 Prof. J.F. Eloff
1982/84 Dr Gerhard J. Fock
1984/86 Dr John C. Vogel
1986/88 E. Margaret Shaw
1988/90 Prof. Hilary John Deacon
1990/92 Prof. J. David Lewis-Williams
1992/94 Dr Tim M. O’C. Maggs
1994/96 Dr Janette Deacon
1996/98 Prof. Thomas N. Huffman
1998/2000 Prof. John E. Parkington

Term PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT
2000/2002 Elizabeth A. Voigt  Sona Buys
2002/2004 Prof. Richard G. Klein David Morris
 
2004/2006
 
 Prof. Lyn Wadley Dr A.J.B. Humphreys
2006/2008
 Prof. Andrew B. Smith Jo Earle
2008/2010 Prof. Judith Sealy Christine Sievers
2010/2012 Dr Francis Thackeray Mary Leslie
2012/2014 Dr Simon Hall  Reinoud Boers
2014-2016 Prof Innocent Pikirayi Pamela Kustner
2016-2018 Prof Jan Boeyens  Dr Graham Avery
2018-2020 Dr Gavin Whitelaw Yvonne Viljoen
2020-2022  Prof Karim Sadr  Jean Gray
2022-2024 Dr David Morris Dr Antonia Malan
2024-2026 Prof. Peter Mitchell Dr Lita Webley
2026-2028 Ms Mary Leslie Prof. Tim Forssman