WESSA Schools Programme Annual Report 2019/2020

Lameez was born and raised in Cape Town. She qualified in the field of Geography with a Masters Degree from the University of Western Cape and is currently completing a Masters Degree in Environmental Education at Rhodes University. Lameez’s true passion lies in education and Human Capacity Development for the environment. Our ‘Bring-the-Fun and Think Differently’ Project Manager LAMEEZ EKSTEEN Lameez means “soft” in Arabic and she is very sensitive, but definitely not fragile. She enjoys cooking and trying new recipes. Lameez also loves music and often has one-woman, old school R&B, concerts in her mirror – with her favourite song to perform being No Scrubs by TLC. She collect crystals and her favourite stone is amethyst.

REATLEGILE THABATHI

Our ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ Project Manager

Rea is a fun bubbly young lady. She studied a BSc Life and Environmental Science from the University of Johannesburg and graduated in 2014. She realized that she wanted to dedicate her life to protecting our planet when she was Grade 8 and started an environmental club for her school with some of her friends. Her career started as a climate change activist when she as 20 years old and she has come a long way since then. Even though Rea is a nature lover, she is terrified of lizards and only love them from afar. She spends her free time reading, volunteering at the Orlando Children’s Home and working in her garden.

Our ‘Renewable Energy Expert’ Project Manager MAWANDE MBOLA

Mawande is from a small town called Willowvale but moved to Cape Town in the early stages of his life where he studied and obtained a National Diploma in Environmental management at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He developed a love for nature during primary school days as his home in Willowvale is situated less than a kilometre to the Dwesa nature reserve. He has always been a been a sport person, if he was not at school he was playing soccer.

Mawande developed a great deal of interest in the renewable energy sector in the early years of his career within the Groen Sebenza internship under the WESSA Eskom Energy and Sustainability project. He completed a Project Management course at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. His future aspirations is to work on big scale renewable energy programmes in the SADC region.

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