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For more information: Tel: +27 13 002 0001 or E-mail: [email protected] www.ump.ac.za DR LOSHNI GOVENDER Executive Director: Human Resources, University of Mpumalanga UNIVERSITY OF Since its establishment, the University of Mpumalanga has done incredibly well in terms of gender empowerment. At the helm, the university is being led by capable and accomplished women who have MPUMALANGA LED made a significant contribution at the University and higher education in general. UMP is one of the few Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Postgraduate Dr Govender completed her PhD in Public Management BY CAPABLE AND South African universities that has a female Vice-Chancellor. In addition, the university has recently Certificate in Management, Postgraduate Certificate in and Development at . Her PhD led appointed Professor Shirley Mthethwa Sommers as deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning, Labour Law, Masters in Education from the University of to the development of a human resources model for South ACCOMPLISHED Dr Loshni Govender as Executive Director Human Resources and Professor Hilda Israel as the Dean for Western Cape and a PhD from Stellenbosch University. Africa. She has been contributed to the development of HR WOMEN the Faculty of Education. Prior to joining , Dr Govender was HR practitioners in higher education through curriculum design Director: Organisational Development at the Nelson Mandela and facilitation of the capacity development programme Research remains one of the key pillars at the University of Mpumalanga in our quest to create University from mid-2011 to early 2014. Before joining the for HR professionals in the sector. Dr Govender holds opportunities. We conduct research that is contextually relevant to resolve some of the local, and global, Dr Loshni Govender has extensive senior management Nelson Mandela University, Dr Govender served as the professional registration with various bodies, including the Acting Executive HR Director: Human Resources for Walter South African Board for Personnel Practice, the Institute for pressing challenges such as food security, environmental and socioeconomic sustainability, biodiversity experience in the higher education sector. Her portfolios have covered various human resources functions, Sisulu University. Her substantive post was HR Director: Personnel Management, South African Council of Educators, conservation, early childhood education and post-harvest management. The UMP Research and including overall leadership of the human resources Organisational Development, Learning and Development the Association for Coaching and Coaches and Mentors of Innovation Division is spearheaded and managed by Professor Phindile Lukhele-Olorunju as Director: function, organisational development, talent management, and Wellness. . Research Management. The division creates and supports an environment that fosters research quality organisational wellness, training and development, and productivity, develops and sustains the research productivity of staff and students and ensures that remuneration and benefits as well as training and Dr Govender is associated with the Faculty of Education at As the Executive Director: Human Resources at the University the University of Mpumalanga. She is a Research Associate of Mpumalanga, the focus is on innovating and enhancing UMP conducts research that contributes to local, regional, national and global sustainability. development. with the Nelson Mandela University and has an interest in HR practice, and enhancing developmental opportunities Dr Govender was the HR Director at Rhodes University. contributing to research in the fields of leadership, public for employees. She holds a BA, BA (Hons) in Industrial Psychology, management and human resources management.

PROFESSOR THOKO MAYEKISO Vice-Chancellor, University of Mpumalanga

Professor Thoko Mayekiso is the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mpumalanga with effect from PROF PHINDILE LUKHELE-OLORUNJU 1 November 2014. As a Founding Vice-Chancellor, Prof Mayekiso had the privilege of pioneering the Director: Research Management, University of Mpumalanga trajectory the University would follow. She obtained a BA, BA Honours, and MA in Psychology, from the .

She furthered her studies at the Free University Berlin, in Germany, where she obtained her D Phil (cum laude) Prof P.E. Lukhele-Olorunju’s career has taken her from region. As an educator, she has graduated a number of in Psychology. She also holds a Higher Education Diploma (post-graduate) from the University of South Africa. fields to boardrooms. Her education began in Swaziland international students at BSc, MSc and PhD levels. In her She is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Prof Mayekiso is where she obtained qualifications in the Agricultural managerial capacity, Prof Lukhele-Olorunju was Head of deeply steeped in the academy. The expression, “rising through the ranks”, appositely describes her academic and sciences. She holds a BSc Agriculture 1978 (Swaziland), Department at the University of the North; managed three professional trajectories. MSc Plant Breeding 1982 (Nigeria) and PhD Plant Breeding/ Research Institutes (Grain Crops Institute, Small Grains Virology 1990 (USA). She is an internationally respected Institute and Institute for Industrial Crops) as Group scientist, educator and manager, and has vast experience Executive in the ARC; headed up research development In her sterling academic career, Prof Mayekiso has held positions of Senior Lecturer, her a fellowship which was tenable at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and offered through her work as a researcher in Agricultural research as Director Research and Innovation in the University of Associate Professor, Professor, Head of Department of Psychology and Vice Dean at the her an opportunity to shadow a Provost. institutions. Venda. In 2011, she was a finalist in the Shoprite Checkers then University of Transkei. While at this University, she interspersed her teaching role Women of the Year Awards for her role in mentoring and in Psychology with clinical practice, by serving as part-time Clinical Psychologist at the She joined the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2001 where she served Prof Lukhele-Olorunju’s career path has seen her in many educating women farmers. Mthatha General Hospital. She has taught at all levels from undergraduate to postgraduate as Head of School, Chair of Psychology, Deputy Dean, and then Acting Executive Dean in roles, including being a Plant breeder at the Institute for levels in Psychology with a focus on Developmental Psychology, Psychopathology and the Faculty of Humanities. She proceeded to the Nelson Mandela University in 2007, as Agricultural Research (IAR) at Ahmadu Bello University, Her other experiences include international consulting Psychotherapy. She has supervised 20 master’s students and 12 doctoral students. an Executive Dean in the Faculty of Arts, and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Nigeria; Group Executive at the Agricultural Research (FAO), management of international agricultural projects, Engagement) in 2009. While at the helm of research at Nelson Mandela University, Prof Council (ARC) of South Africa; Director: Research and collaborative research projects with CGIAR Institutions Being a distinguished scholar and accomplished academic, Prof Mayekiso attracted a Mayekiso contributed to creating an enabling research environment and conducive ecology. Innovation and Interim Chief Executive Officer at the (IITA, ICRISAT, and ILRI), USAID (Peanut CRSP) and number of scholarships and fellowships. Notable among these is the German Academic This was exemplified by policiesthat made the pursuit of higher degrees by staff members Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA); and Director: the World Bank (NARP). She was a Representative of Exchange Scholarship (DAAD). She was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship in the United possible and culminating in remarkable research outputs and more academics obtaining Research Management at the University of Mpumalanga, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Kingdom, where she practiced as Honorary Clinical Fellow at the Greenwood Institute of PhDs. She is a C3 rated scientist by the National Research Foundation and a member of the to name but a few. She has also lectured at three renowned the Winter Cereal Trust 2006 to 2015 and subsequently Child Health, University of Leicester and simultaneously served as a Clinical Psychologist Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). universities: University of Botswana and Swaziland, became a member of the Bursary Committee of the Winter Prof Lukhele-Olorunju is known among her peers as a in the Department of Medical Psychology, Leicester General Hospital. The South African Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, and University of the Cereal Trust. She has lent her skills as a member of the God-fearing woman, a mentor, straight-talker and focused University Vice-Chancellors Association and the American Council on Education awarded North (now ). Board of AISA 2012-2014; Board member of Bioversity on the growth of those around her and the organisations International (a CGIAR Research Centre) 2006-2012 she’s been involved in. Her career speaks for itself, and is As part of her research in Nigeria, she released a number and an ASI Fellow. She is also currently a member of an example that women can and should thrive regardless of groundnut varieties for the country and West African Senate and Council at the University of Mpumalanga. of their environment.

PROF SHIRLEY SOMMERS Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning, University of Mpumalanga PROF HILDA ISRAEL

Dean: Faculty of Education, University of Mpumalanga Prof Shirley Sommers is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of She was also the founding Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Mpumalanga. Pluralism at the same institution: the institute attended Prof Sommers is passionate about social justice education, to the development of an equitable and inclusive campus Prof Hilda Israel is the Dean of the Faculty of Education. She Sociolinguistics, Educational Assessment, Translation & particularly the issues of access and success of students in terms of race, gender, gender identity, social class completed the BA, BA (Hon) and UHDE at UKZN, followed Interpreting as Educational Tools, and Cross-Disciplinary from economically marginalised backgrounds. She has more and sexuality. Her other academic experiences include by the B Ed at Unisa. As a Fulbright Scholar at Baylor Studies. She has successfully managed international than 20 years in academia, rising through the ranks from leadership positions, academic staff development and University, Texas, she completed the Master of Science in projects on Applied Language Studies, including the Assistant Professor to a tenured full Professor in Education. service-learning. She is a long-term editorial board member Education and Doctor of Education. Prof Israel has since training of translators in African Languages. Most recently, of Agenda: Feminist Media, and the Program Chair of the added many professional development qualifications to she has researched and compiled manuals on Educational She has held several leadership and pioneering positions American Educational Research Association’s Service- her profile, including Management Skills for 21st Century Leadership and Management for South African educators such as being the founding director of the Centre for Urban Learning and Experiential Education SIG. Leaders, International Developments in Doctoral Education enrolling for Post-Graduate Programmes. Education in upstate New York, USA, where she built & Training (Scotland) and Supervision of the Post-Graduate capacity for preservice and in-service teachers to educate Student. She was one of six South African women chosen to Prof Israel tries to ensure that her teaching content is students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds complete the Higher Education Research Support (HERS) relevant for society today, addressing topics such as using culturally responsive and social justice education Programme for Women Managers in Higher Education social justice, inequality, HIV-Aids, unemployment, methodologies. (Philadelphia, USA). global warming, ethics, gender studies and the impact of technology on the community. Prof Israel has delivered research papers at national and international conferences on Teaching Methodologies, Multilingualism, Africanisation of the Curriculum,