The IRC is a voluntary association, not for gain, in South Africa founded in May 2010. The role of the IRC as a national body is to provide direction on matters relating to integrated reporting and integrated thinking in South Africa through technical information and guidance, conferences and other activities.
Our organisation members are among the leading professional and industry bodies in South Africa. The founding members are the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA), the JSE Ltd, and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).
Subsequently, other organisations joined the IRC: ACCA South Africa (ACCA), Accounting Standards Board, Banking Association South Africa (BASA), Chartered Institute for Business Accounts (CIBA), Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa (CGISA), Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), Council of Retirement Funds for South Africa (Batseta), Institute of Internal Auditors of South Africa (IIA SA), Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA), Investor Relations Society of South Africa, Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA), Rhodes Business School, Rhodes University, the University of Johannesburg: Department of Accountancy and the University of the Witwatersrand – School of Accountancy.
In April 2017 the IRC welcomed corporate members, a new category of membership. The 2026/27 corporate members are: AfroCentric Investment Corporation Ltd, Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, Attacq Ltd, Bastion Graphics (Pty) Ltd, Deloitte South Africa, Discovery Ltd, Ernst & Young (EY), Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Exxaro Resources Ltd, Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), Ince (Pty) Ltd, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC), KPMG South Africa, Legal Practitioners Insurance Indemnity Fund NPC (LPIIF), Naspers Ltd, Nedbank Ltd, Northam Platinum Ltd, PricewaterhouseCoopers South African Firm, Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd, Redefine Properties Ltd, Sasol Ltd, Super Group Ltd, SNG Grant Thornton Inc, The Spar Group Ltd and Tangelo Software BV.
In April 2019 the IRC welcomed corporate SME members. Our 2026/27 corporate SME members are: Alchemy Creative Studios (Pty) Ltd, Blackmoon Advertising and Research (Pty) Ltd, Blue Apple (Pty) Ltd, Greymatter & Finch (Pty) Ltd, Joshero (Pty) Ltd, R&A Strategic Communications (Pty) Ltd, O’Hearne Ferreira (Pty) Ltd, Studio Five Graphic Design (Pty) Ltd, Trialogue (Pty) Ltd, The Oak Tree Group, and W Technical Consulting South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
The IRC also has a number of individual honorary members.
The IRC is governed by a board. The current members of the board are: Professor Mervyn King (Chair), Professor Suresh Kana (Deputy Chair), Leigh Roberts (CEO), Graeme Brookes (JSE), Milton Segal (SAICA), Sunette Mulder (ASISA) and Parmi Natesan (IoDSA). In May 2026, the IRC members voted Yvonne Mathibi (IRMSA) and Zubair Wadee (Wits University) to the board to fulfil the two annual rotating positions. Previously, these positions have been held by Khoboso Tsike (LPIIF) and Ansie Ramalho (IRC honorary member) (May 2024 – May 2026), Thuto Masasa (BDO South Africa) and Corli le Roux (IRC honorary member) (May 2022 – April 2024), Jayne Mammatt (PricewaterhouseCoopers South African Firm) and Russell Loubser (IRC honorary member) (May 2020 – May 2022) and Larissa Clark (EY) and Stephen Sadie (CGISA)(May 2018 – May 2020).
The IRC CEO is Leigh Roberts, the head of the IRC Secretariat is Lyn Bunce, the Secretariat of the IRC Working Group is Cornelia Maraschin, Evelyn Parker is the IRC Events Co-ordinator, and Ntando Dube is responsible for web development.. The IRC also relies on a team of people who kindly volunteer their services: Darren Gorton (IT and website maintenance), Sheralee Morland (IR Practitioners Forum and IRC Annual Conference) and Elrida Oberholzer (social media and IRC Annual Conference). The IRC relies on the contribution of its Working Group: the members of the Working Group are appointed in their individual capacity and bring their experience and expertise in different industry sectors and as preparers, consultants, investors and academics.
This website aims to be an information hub on integrated reporting in South Africa. It offers the available guidance on integrated reporting in South Africa, technical Information Papers, the latest integrated reporting awards in South Africa, and the latest research reports and surveys of the integrated reports of organisations in South Africa.
