Sue completed an honours degree at Rhodes University, and after this spent nine years farming in the Eastern Cape. Here, witnessing at first hand the desperate poverty of rural communities, she was motivated to become involved in community development. Her first project was to build schools in Giyani: she was handed the architect’s plans whilst standing on a bare piece of land, and went on to raise over R10 million for the Khanyisa Schools. Today, this is a fully-functioning seat of learning.

From these early beginnings in 1990, Sue developed Peiser & Associates, and has been personally responsible for raising over R100 million for a wide range of educational and charity projects. Sue is one of the co-founders of BackaBuddy, an online fundraising website which links charity champions with charitable causes through sporting events.