Fathima dada biography examples
Fathima Dada..
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Jabu Bengu (Africa!Ignite Chair):
Ms Bengu is a former high school principal and former Director of the non-profit Thembalethu Education and Skills Development Centre in Pietermaritzburg.
After the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport head-hunted her to spearhead the inclusion of women as contractors on the maintenance of the Province’s provincial road network. Subsequent to this, she was appointed as Director: Special Projects in the KwaZulu-Natal Ministry of Education.
Fathima joined Oxford University Press in December from Pearson where she was the Global MD for English and Schools managing the strategy and performance.
In this position, she lead the Education Centres’ project, through which education centres were established in all of KwaZulu-Natal’s education districts from , through a partnership between the Education Department, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and MiET Africa, the organisation out of which Africa!ignite was born.
Africa!Ignite still uses these centres as nodes of support in rural areas. Jabu subsequently also coordinated the RAIN (Resources and Information Network) project, thro