Black female South Africans students becoming lecturers, and that’s something I’m passionate about.” Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, 2017
of ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Looking to the future, Moothi says he hopes to have a role in shaping and developing the graduation of Black female students. “That’s something I’d really like to see, finding solutions to the challenges that affect environmental pollution, Mashifana is committed to community, people, and the future. “I am learning every single day that I need to share, transfer the skills and the knowledge that I have acquired to those I meet. I have seen these skills transferred to the students I teach, and I could not trade that experience for anything. As a researcher, I am given the opportunity to investigate solutions to some of the challenges that this country is facing. It is what I love doing,” she says. For Mashifana it is critical that she invest her time and effort into developing value-added products that can address the human settlement and unemployment challenges. She works on community development projects and motivates young people, mostly young women and girls, to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Dr Mpho Tshivase is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria and obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Johannesburg. She is the first Black woman to achieve this significant accolade in South Africa and it is a testament to her hard work, passion, and commitment to this field. In addition to these achievements, she is the first Black woman president of the Philosophy Society of South Africa and has a list of awards and recognitions behind her. “Professionally, my role involves lecturing undergraduate and
as it allows him to conduct further research in the “role of nanotechnology in environmental engineering for the treatment of water and wastewater”. He hopes his research will help support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal
DR TEBOGO MASHIFANA Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Johannesburg
“My family inspires me a great deal, the joy and pride my parents have every time I share a milestone is something that keeps me going,” she says. One of the people who has most motivated and helped Mashifana on her journey is her husband, Kgaogelo Mashifana. She describes him as her greatest motivator and someone who makes her journey bearable. “He always says to me ‘we will support you’ and I know he really does,” she adds. “I have come to learn that there are young people who look up to me and because of that I am always walking the extra mile, working a little harder. I want to show them that they can achieve anything they want. My advice to those who want to achieve success is to grab opportunities with both hands. It is one thing to dream, another to do something about it.” National Diploma Chemical Engineering, 2007, BTech Chemical Engineering, 2008, MTech Chemical Engineering, 2011, DPhil Civil Engineering, 2017, Post Graduate Diploma, Higher Education, 2019. postgraduate students and supervising postgraduate research projects,” says Tshivase. “I am currently abroad on a visiting scholarship as part of building international scholarship on topics relating to African knowledge systems and the works produced therein. Part of the aim of this project is to decolonise academia and what we teach at universities in Africa.” Tshivase is, on top of this impressive workload, a researcher. She works in the fields of uniqueness, personhood, and African ethics, and this work
Don’t tell Dr Tebogo Mashifana (31) that engineering is only for men! This senior lecturer and researcher in the faculty of engineering at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has already achieved her doctoral degree from UJ and an MBA from Regent Business School, and is currently studying for her postgraduate diploma in higher education. Passionate about
DR MPHO TSHIVHASE Senior Lecturer University of Pretoria
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