360º PERSPECTIVES | ISSUE 7 | 2020/2021
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Evangelists of recycling
» We are not your average recycling company. We are evangelists of recycling.
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HE ‘WE’ IN THIS UNUSUAL BRAND POSITION ARE NKAZIMLO MITI AND CHAD ROBERTSON,
the UWC alumni who founded Regenize, an award-winning waste management company. The two became friends in their third year when their BCom studies focused more on Information Systems (IS), their area of specialisation. The IS department was hugely influential, not only in terms of them benefitting from the expertise and industry knowledge of lecturers like Roscoe Adams and Dr Njenga, but their observation of the department taught them a lot about organising enterprises efficiently. “I think the IS department helped us to see how a tight ship operates,” says Nkazi, who has lectured part-time at the department. Chad says it was also a nurturing environment: “They had a nice balance of how a
team should operate. You would have someone who was very focused on the care of students, always checking up on how you were doing, making sure that you were okay. And then you would have tougher members more focused on how you were progressing work-wise. Different people brought different values but it all came together in a very special way. The values that I got from them were to be cognisant of all the different aspects of people, how you work with those people and how that impacts them. >>
» The IS department was hugely influential, not only in terms of them benefitting from the expertise and industry knowledge of the lecturers, but their observation of the department taught them a lot about organising enterprises efficiently. «
