Your care team

These are the people who will look after you.

One agreed fee does not mean an anonymous team. It means the opposite: everyone below works from the same plan and the same record, so nobody has to be told your story twice. Midwife-led, with a specialist obstetrician overseeing every pathway.

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Clinical leadership

Who holds clinical accountability, sets the standards, and is on call behind the pathway.

Dr Howard P Manyonga

Specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist. Founder and clinical executive

MB ChB, FCOG(SA), MRCOG(UK), Executive MBA

Dr Manyonga oversees clinical governance across every centre, and the specialist obstetric cover behind the midwife-led pathway. He has spent over a decade building value-based maternity models, and his work is on the parts of care that reduce variation: written protocols, defined escalation thresholds, and measured outcomes. He also holds the partnerships with the hospitals and the funders.

Dr Emmanuel Majachani

Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Obstetric clinical lead

MB ChB, FCOG(SA)

Dr Majachani has been a specialist in independent practice since 2001, with more than twenty years in obstetrics and women's health. He leads on high-risk pregnancy and on supporting natural birth, and he sets the obstetric standards the network runs to. He works alongside the midwives, anaesthetists and neonatal team rather than above them.

Sister Marie van Heerden

Midwife specialist. Practice manager and operations coordinator

Master's in Mother and Child Care; Neonatal Medical and Surgical Intensive Care

Sister Marie has close to thirty years in maternal and neonatal care, and has held management roles since 2008, including hospital manager of Genesis Maternity Clinic. She runs midwifery practice and the day-to-day operation of the centres, and she is usually the person who makes sure your plan and your appointments actually line up.

Women's health

Gynaecology, ColpoCare and SWIFT Care. Led by Dr Manyonga, with a sessional GP at each centre.

Dr Admire Chikandiwa

Specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist. Cervical screening, HPV and sexual health

MB ChB, FCOG(SA), MMed (O&G), PhD

Dr Chikandiwa is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist whose work spans maternal and sexual and reproductive health, as a clinician and as an epidemiologist. He is an associate professor of women's health at the University of the Witwatersrand, where his research covers HPV, sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer, and he contributed to South Africa's national cervical cancer policy. He sees women's health patients at our Johannesburg rooms.

Based at our Johannesburg rooms

Midwives and sonography

The people you will see most. Midwife-led care means your midwife runs your pregnancy, with the specialists behind her.

Lindokuhle Tshabalala

Lead midwife. Antenatal, birth and postnatal care

Registered with the South African Nursing Council

Lindo has been part of the team since the practice started. She covers antenatal assessment, labour and birth support, postnatal care and family planning, and she mentors the midwives coming in behind her. She was confident enough in the programme to have her own son under this team.

Sister Princess

Midwife. Antenatal and postnatal educator, lactation support

BNurs (Pretoria), PGDip Public Health, MNurs candidate

Sister Princess covers antenatal care and education, labour support and lactation support. She is National Secretary of the Nurses Special Interest Group at SAREG. She works closely with the obstetricians, doulas and paediatric team so a family gets one plan rather than several.

Jacky Dawson

Sonographer. Inside Out Scans

BRad Radiography, BTech Ultrasound, BA Psychology. Registered with the HPCSA

Jacky does the pregnancy ultrasound scans, including nuchal translucency and anomaly scans, with experience in both government and private settings. She came to obstetric ultrasound through psychology, and runs the scan room as a place families are meant to enjoy being in.

Doulas

Continuous support through labour, and the preparation before it. A doula is part of the programme, not an extra you arrange yourself.

Beverley Chigwanda

Head doula. Founder, YoBirthfriend Doula Support

Certified birth and postpartum doula (WOMBS); Evidence Based Birth educator; La Leche League lactation support

Bev has supported over seventy births. She covers emotional and physical support in labour, antenatal education, postpartum recovery, lactation guidance and the family adjustment afterwards. She works with each family's own cultural practices rather than around them.

Danielle Kavonic

Doula. Antenatal educator

Director, 1000 Days of Grace Foundation

Danielle supports families from before conception until a child turns two: antenatal education, labour and birth, caesarean birth, breastfeeding, immediate postpartum and early parenting. She came to it after her own four births. She also delivers this care in government facilities for families who cannot afford private support.

Angelique Samuels

Doula. Prenatal and postnatal movement specialist

Prenatal and postnatal Pilates

Angelique supports women through pregnancy, birth and the weeks after it. She brings movement, breath and body awareness into the preparation, which is the practical side of feeling ready rather than only being informed.

Zukiswa Pule

Birth doula and holistic maternal health practitioner

WOMBS trained (2020); Rebozo massage (2023)

Zukiswa has supported mothers for five years, covering prenatal and postnatal emotional support, aromatherapy, reflexology and the practical care around birth. She volunteered in the high-risk pregnancy and birth ward at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital from 2024 to 2025. She is a mother of five.

Practice

Appointments, accounts and paperwork. Naming them matters because these are the people you will phone.

Refilwe Moiloa

Pretoria administrator and doula

Mother and childbirth coach and companion, certified through WOMBS

Refilwe runs the Pretoria rooms and also works as a doula. She trained at Shandukani Maternity Clinic in Hillbrow. Her focus is the part of the visit the clinical team does not cover: how you are coping, and whether you feel confident about what happens next.

Based at our Pretoria rooms

Antonette Ngwenya

Johannesburg administrator

Business Management (in progress)

Antonette books and coordinates appointments, handles contractual paperwork and medical certificates, and keeps the day-to-day of the Johannesburg rooms running. She spent over twelve years in banking and client care before this.

Based at our Johannesburg rooms

Chantel Swart

Business administration and accounts

Business Administration, Accounts, Secretarial Diploma

Chantel handles billing, invoicing and financial record-keeping, and is the person who makes sure the administration matches what actually happened clinically. If you have a question about an account, it reaches her.

Based at our Johannesburg rooms

Steve van Heerden

Business development and financial systems

Steve builds the task sheets that carry patient demographic and clinical information through to the financial side of the global maternity fee, working on the GoodX system. He liaises with the auditors on SARS compliance. He came to the practice after retiring from higher education in physics and electronics.

Clinical accountability for every person above sits with Dr H P Manyonga & Associates Inc., BHF practice number 0977357. Providers contracted to the practice work under service level agreements with defined scope. Our centres are open Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.

Meet them properly.

A first visit is the fastest way to know whether this team is right for you. Tell us when suits, and we will call you back.

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