Lady May kicked off with 21 new recruits joining our Umuzi community. What a fire group of individuals they are!? We’re super excited to have our C35s onboard.
We also saw our C30s head off to work experience with 2U, Purple Cosmos, TIH and VMLR&Y respectively. Another milestone in the books to note is our C28s who received job offers post their work experience.
Let’s see what else this month’s Kicker has in store for us.
Meet Cohort 35
Work Placements & Congratulations
Mlungisi Ndlovu - UX Strategy C28 has signed a fixed term contract with 2U.
Mpumimay Modise - UX Strategy C28 has signed a fixed term contract with 2U.
Andiswa Soqinase - UX Strategy C28 has signed a fixed term contract with 2U.
Codie Mellem - Data Science C28 has signed a fixed term contract with 2U.
Steve Molele - Web Dev C30 has joined Purple Cosmos on work experience.
Taelo Seholoba - Web Dev C30 has joined Purple Cosmos on work experience.
Zinintsi Mhlalela - UI Design C30 has joined VMLY&R on work experience.
Christopher Ngalalume - Web Dev C28 has signed a fixed term contract with 2U.
Boitumelo Molapo - UI Design C30 has joins Plus Narrative as a Junior Designer.
Tsepo Matheleli - Data Science C28 has signed a fixed term contract with 2U.
Laetitia Khoza - UI Design C30 has joined VMLY&R on work experience.
Lindokuhle Nkabinde - UX Strategy C30 has joined VMLY&R on work experience.
Mante Moruthane - UX Strategy C30 has joined VMLY&R on work experience.
Mathibela Lemekoana - Web Dev C30 has joined TIH on work experience.
Keanu Bowker - Data Scientist C26 has signed contract with Devcom
Recruits Making Moves
Tech Spotlight
Congratulations to these recruits who have put their blood and sweat into making major progress in their problem-solving skills.
Si’thi asbonge bafethu. Sipho & Thabang have moved from problem-solving foundation 2 to Problem-solving foundations 3.
Sipho Dlamini - C31 Web Development
Thabang Modisaotsile - C34 Data Science
Problem-Solving Foundations 1 - 2
These guys have moved from problem-solving foundation 1 to Problem-solving foundations 2. Well done on the progress, guys & keep it up!
Gundo Ntoko - C31 Web Development
Mthokozisi Msibi - C28 Web Development
Muziwethu Mlotshwa - C30 Web Dev
Kgotlelelo Mangene - C28 Web Dev
Steve Molele - C30 Web Dev
Sinethemba Khoza - C30 Web Dev
Katleho Mofokeng - C33 Java
Monde Anna - C35 Data Science
Kgaogelo Mamadi - C33 Java
Opportunities Corner
Curiosity Awards
Let’s plug you in…
At Umuzi, we believe that curiosity is King!
The Curiosity Awards is your opportunity to come up with a cool idea, design & build a digital product which you feel solves a unique curious problem. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do it alone, you’ll get to join a team of 3 to 5 competitors from across the various career tracks with a similar curious interest. Your team will be cross-functional, a nice balance of different skills and interests and can contain more than one alumni member. Yes, you read that correctly, the competition is also open to alumni!
What can be built?
The idea is that you should design and build something that:
Inspires curiosity - your curiosity as well as the curiosity of current and future learners
Adds value - makes the world better, not worse
Functional - the code runs and has the intended effect
Designed - consider how some would interact and visually engage with the product
That’s about it! Our previous competitors have built a whole bunch of different digital products such as chatbots, online games, charity web apps, chess tournament management systems and all sorts of other exciting things.
So this July 2022…
It is your time to shine, to be amazing, to go crazy, to learn, discover, create and implement.
Welcome to the Curiosity Awards, presented by Umuzi, imagined by you.
To sign up to participate in this year’s awards, simply fill in this form by, 6 July 2022, so you can be on the pulse with the latest news.
Behind the Scenes: Umuzi Edition
New Staff Member
Our Umuzi team has gained some new & not so new faces. Meet Anthony Selley , new to the community, joined the tech department as a Tech Ed Team Leader. Our not so new to Umuzi faces are Ngoako Ramokgopa from C22 & Themba Ntuli from C28. They joined the tech team as junior Web Developers.
Staff Kicking A$$
A big shout to Carrie Netshifhire & Hloniphile Mdluli for winning the GIC iX Chairman's Choice award for the February 2022 intake.
The GIC iX online programme is an opportunity to validate ideas and learn about entrepreneurship online with the support of Stanford University Online. These two great minds had to pitch a business idea, to which Hayani was born – an online platform that provides on-demand design services to empower South African start-ups and businesses. They match the start-ups design tasks with the best hand-picked designers with daily progress updates.
They competed against several other teams from around the world and were surprised when they were announced as the winners. We aren’t surprised, though, these are the fruits of practising what you preach! This makes Carrie and Hloniphile our May legends at this point! Well done guys for making us proud.
Throwback Of The Month
This month’s throwback is a snip off of “Ask sis Dolly” aka “Ask a Man“. You’ll watch strangers give advice to people’s secrets. Given the chance to bear it all, would you tell your secrets? Are you real enough?
Enjoy!