JGF Amplified

In this episode of 'Humans of JGF', our host, Mathabo Tlali is in the hot seat. Born eKomani, raised eQonce and educated in Makhanda – Mathabo is a proud multi-talented small-town Eastern Cape native, whose roots are currently in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her eclectic career path includes success in advertising as a digital marketing strategist, child development practice, a noted performance practitioner and international award-winning best-selling children’s author for the picture-book, WANDA. She is a Sociology and Drama and Performance Studies major from Rhodes University and her postgraduate interest is in unpacking the South African classroom as a space of citizenship. At JGF, she is a Programme Officer and content producer & host of #JGFAmplified. Listen and enjoy!

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Meet Carla Watson, Head of the Graduate Teaching Fellowship at JGF. Carla is an experienced teacher who firmly believes in the importance of emotional and pedagogical resilience skills for new teachers entering diverse contexts of South African schools. She believes in the entrepreneurial mindset is especially important for teachers in schools. Listen and enjoy!

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 Rudi Magi (they/them) is a person of many trades, with experiences ranging from teaching in both ‘mainstream’ and special education settings. An alum of the University of Pretoria, they hold a Bachelor of Education in FET (General); supported financially by the Thuto Thebe Educational Fund. Rudi then continued working in the higher education space including as a commercial administrator in the technology sector. Rudi taught for several years in Johannesburg and found their experience informed their Vision of Impact: to provide a successful future to learners by developing high-quality teachers. Rudi’s school-going years were tumultuous, and they attended eight schools across South Africa. This experience sparked a profound interest in the impact that teachers have on young minds, prompting them to pursue a qualification in education to amplify their own social impact through teaching. They joined JGF as a Teacher Coach in 2022, where they support our NQTs through their first two years in the classroom. Listen and enjoy!

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Meet Marvin Weavers, Selection Administrator at JGF. Marvin prides himself in being a Capetonian. He holds diplomas in Business Management and Management and is now pursuing his BTech in Project Management at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Marvin started his career in the Arts sector, managing several projects as Youth Development and Education Manager before he joined JGF in 2022 in his current role. With a passion for the development of the youth, his career over the last decade has been focused on making a difference in the lives of young people. Listen and enjoy!

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Meet Amy Underwood and Siwaphiwe Sibeko, Senior Programme Officers at JGF. Amy loves working with people to maximize their potential. Her career has been centred around education and development. She completed a Master in Education at the University of Cape Town and during this time spent six months in Finland on an international programme studying their education model. She was a high school teacher for eight years, became a Programme Officer at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, and then transitioned into her role at JGF.

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Siwaphiwe “Siwa” Sibeko is an advocate for multilingualism, inclusivity, and expression in different spaces. Siwaphiwe is also a firm believer in education and social justice. Holding a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Social Anthropology, Environment and Geographical Sciences, Hons in Social Anthropology and currently finishing Master in MA Linguistics.  Her previous work includes being a liaison officer, academic administrator, community developer, researcher, teaching assistant, student coach and mentor. Siwa is currently a Senior Programme Officer at JGF.

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In this episode of our series, we meet Johanna Letlhogela and Rebecca Pillay. Johanna is JGF's Events & Logistics Specialist and Rebecca is JGF's Beneficiary Allowance Officer - both are our all-round Project Managers. Johanna is passionate about entrepreneurial education and youth development. Her career has been rather interesting: starting off in Finance and she went on to study Project Management and Management Advanced Programme (WITS Business School). As an Events & Logistics Specialist - she ensures all our programmatic and organisational events are planned and executed with the utmost precision.

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Rebecca is passionate about helping people to unlock their innate talents and unleash their potential in the world. She has extensive experience in this space as a Mentor Manager at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, Beneficiary Allowance Officer at JGF and frequently as a Project Manager, supporting Johanna in the work that she does. Listen and enjoy!

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Meet Pearl Moonsamy, Finance Business Partner at JGF. Pearl is an accomplished financial professional with extensive experience leading strategic financial plans and operations. Her expertise resonates in developing and implementing financial and accounting processes and systems while establishing effective procedures that will ultimately drive business success. Listen and enjoy!

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In this episode, we meet Alendra McLean, HR Business Partner at JGF. Alendra is an experienced Human Resources professional with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry, skilled in HR consulting, talent acquisition, labour relations, and networking. We hope you enjoy this episode.

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Meet Jade (Damonse) Glenn. Jade holds an Honours in Educational Psychology (UWC) and a Bachelor of Education degree in English and Life Orientation (UWC). From a young age, she realised her life’s calling is social change and leadership in education. Jade is an experienced teacher and firmly believes her learners benefitted from her strategy of supporting the whole child; often going ‘above and beyond’.  Jade now works with JGF’s Newly Qualified Teachers and is excited about continuing her journey of impact to improve the South African education system’s influence on young people. We hope you will enjoy this episode. 

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In this episode of the series, we meet Cephas Mutami. Cephas has over 14 years of experience in research, data management, monitoring and evaluation across several sectors such as higher education, development practice, environment and property. He holds qualifications in planning, development planning, development studies, and monitoring and evaluation. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from University of Fort Hare (2015). His passion is on knowledge and learning curation to improve the utilisation of evaluation findings across organisations and business units. His role at JGF will give him the opportunity to accelerate and document impact and curate knowledge and learnings for scalable educational interventions in South Africa. We hope you enjoy this episode.

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