2021-05 - Wits mourns the passing of Distinguished Professor Vishnu Padayachee wits.ac.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wits.ac.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Since her time at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), she has achieved a lot.
She created the Girls Coding Academy, won M100 000 in a BEDCO BPC Competition, joined the top 50 Digital Champions in Africa, became an ambassador of Africa Code Week and WomEng in Lesotho, was part of the UN Women delegation in Rwanda and she has taken her coding teams of girls to Ghana and as far as Dubai.
If you are a girl with ambitions in technology, join the Girl’s Coding Academy.
Her academy offers technology training to 80 percent girls and 20 percent boys from the age of five to the age of 23.
Ronnie Govender’s At the Edge was seen by hundreds of thousands over many years. Pat Pillai recalls his time with him in the 80s, and the first staging of this iconic piece of theatre.
It is through their eyes that we are able to see better.
Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender, most commonly known as Ronnie Govender, once informed me of the deep leadership of the real-world bus driver, the fruit seller, the fisher, the petrol attendant, the school teacher… and yes, also the fictional world but perhaps not so fictional child of Mothi, the shit-bucket-carrier, in the play
The Lahnee’s Pleasure.
Whether playing the seven-year-old child of Mothi in my grandfather Ronnie Govender’s play… or trying to drink some of the whisky in his cabinet in my early teens… or going for a swim with him in the ocean with my sisters and cousins… or even when dealing with life’s challenges, he always triggered and directed our conscience and
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