Staff & Board Members
Brightness Mangolothi
Brightness Mangolothi is a Director at HERS-SA. A former Head of Department for Public Relations and Communication Studies at Nelson Mandela University and Head of Programme at AdvTech Independent Institute of Education (IIE). She has more than a decade lecturing and research supervision experience at public and private universities.
Amanda Rohner
Amanda joined the events management team for the 2014 ACADEMY as the Finance and Procurement officer on a part-time basis as of October 2014. She then became the Finance Administrator in January 2021.
She is dedicated to provide service with zeal and has extensive customer service experience in various sectors. She is passionate about education and learning and is currently involved as a facilitator to advance the reading and writing skills of young learners.
Fayroes Safodien
Fayroes worked for the Department of Health for over 20 years, as a senior administrative clerk within the Human Resource Management section, specifically recruitment and selection up until March 2014. In this time, she received a Long Service Award for her services within the Health sector. She took a leap of faith, by entering the academic world as a full-time student, in order to complete a four-year Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of the Western Cape and graduated in 2018.
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Board Members
HERS-SA is a Voluntary Association and according to its Constitution, is required to have “Members” serving on the HERS-SA Board who monitor, support and advise the Association to help it meet its goals. Members convene at an Annual General Meeting(AGM).
Dr Soraya Beukes
Dr Soraya Beukes is a motivated and inspirational human rights lawyer and social justice activist. Her work focuses on how corruption impacts on socioeconomic rights.
Shahieda Hendricks-Adams
Shahieda Bebe Hendricks-Adams is an Education Training, Development and HR Practitioner with 25 years’ experience in the coaching, management and training sphere, more specifically in Neuro-based coaching, multiple braining integration techniques (mBIT) coaching, mediation, counselling, training, facilitation, skills development processes and Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP).
Dr Mamsie Motshekga-Sebolai
Dr Mamsie Motshekga-Sebolai is an experienced HRD expert and currently Director at Tshwane University of Technology with a demonstrated history of working in the Higher Education & Private Sector. Skilled in coaching, mentoring, leadership, strategic planning. talent management & organizational development.
Melanie Sadeck
Melanie Sadeck, is the Head of the Department of Teacher Professional Development in the Faculty of Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). She manages the formal in-service Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Programmes and coordinates work integrated learning, service learning and community engagement activities in the Faculty.
Nonkululeko Tsita
Nonkululeko Tsita has a proven history of leadership in management accounting functions, system implementations, and business process improvements. Her career spans more than 25 years of experience, working in both private and public sector developing and implementing activity based costing models, resource allocation models, pricing strategies, conducting corporate benchmarking, rationalisation and turnaround strategies. as well as conducting financial viability studies.
Ursula Riddles
Ursula Riddles has more than 14 years’ experience in Finance, with specific specialised skills in Financial Management and Commerce. She holds a Bachelor of Honours Degree in Commerce (UWC, 2015) and is currently registered for the Masters in Business Information Systems (CPUT, 2016 – current).
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