The KaiKai team consists of permanent in-house expertise and selected suppliers.

• Jimmy du Toit is the managing director - a practising attorney with a BA LLB and extensive commercial interest.

• Ben Mtetandaba is the community liaison officer - he was born in Retreat in the Eastern Cape in 1948 and completed his high school education in Cape Town. He was “relocated” from Vioolsdrift to Port Nolloth in 1986 and fought a well published legal battle to remain a resident of Port Nolloth since 1988. Ben has been involved in community issues since 1988 and is therefor well-known and respected by the entire Richtersveld community and has served on Local Government bodies. He is married and has 3 children and 2 grandchildren. Ben Mtetandaba has been appointed as the community liaison officer of KaiKai with the intention of sensitising the entire community on any impact KaiKai may have on them.

• Annelize du Toit is a director - a qualified mathematical statistician with a BSc Hons (cum laude) and extensive commercial interest.

• Graham Williamson is the botanist and naturalist of the company with a MSc in botany. He is also a research associate at the Bolus Institute of the University of Cape Town and the author of the definitive work on the Richtersveld. As a permanent member of the KaiKai team, Graham is a world renowned Richtersveld expert and author of the seminal work, “Richtersveld - Enchanted Wilderness”. Later in life he completed an MSc. in botany at Wits University. On retiring from dentistry, CDM employed him as a botanical consultant with the responsibility for producing an environmental impact study of their mining area and exploring and recording the flora of the Sperrgebiet.
  Graham and his wife Francoise are to date involved in environmental education and have led local and international tours. During 1993-94, they were the consultants to Sir David Attenborough on the Richtersveld section of his widely acclaimed Private Life of Plants.
  While working as a volunteer in the Richtersveld National Park he produced a floral survey of the Park and the Richtersveld National Park guide booklet. He also acted as information officer and trained the local people as tourist guides.
  Graham has received local and international awards for photography, artwork and botany. He was given the Bolus Award of the Botanical Society of South Africa and the Allen Dyer Award of the Succulent Society of South Africa. He has lectured in North America, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and has many publications to his name including major publications on Euphorbia and an account of the floral zones of the Sperrgebiet, southern Namib desert. His published descriptions to date comprise 64 new species and subspecies. Both he and his wife have been commemorated in the naming of succulent plants.
  In retirement, Graham works as a botanist and artist based in Cape Town.

• Comrie + Wilkinson Architechts and Urban Designers with offices in Cape Town and Pretoria. Chris Wilkinson received several awards including the the Gauteng Institute of Architects Commendation in 2005.

• Macroplan Town and Regional Planners is well established and well known in the Northern Cape and deals with the project's zoning and subdivision requirements.

• BVi is a firm of consulting civil and electrical engineers. The firm was established in 1967 and has been involved in many high profile public works and mining projects in the Northern Cape.

• EMC Electrical is an electrical contractor with a solid reputation. The company has successfully undertaken substantial contracts for the mining industry in the Northern Cape.

• Botes and Kennedy (Pty) Ltd is a Springbok-based company of civil engineers and civil contractors. The company was formed in 1979 and has undertaken several substantial projects for the mining industry.

• AFRICON Environmental Services is well known throughout South Africa and is based in Pretoria. The company completed the environmental impact study and the process to obtain the necessary consents from the Northern Cape Department of Environmental Affairs.