ADVERTORIAL MOPANI TVET COLLEGE
Turning the spotlight on the women in engineering With engineering being considered a male-dominated industry, Mopani TVET College plays an important role in changing such perception by providing women equal opportunities in engineering, and for all employees to showcase their competencies and skills to inspire the upcoming women engineers. This College has been employing women as facilitators and/or lecturers in various workshops and fields like Civil, ERD- and Electrical Engineering, IT and NATED Engineering programmes. The current ratio of males to female lecturing staff at Sir Val Duncan Engineering Campus is 37:16. In doing so it has brought awareness and recognition to the fact that engineering is not only for males. Ms Petronella Mudau attached to the Civil Engineering faculty at Sir Val Duncan Campus is one of the women who was recently appointed as a facilitator to teach Bricklaying. “I always knew that what I wanted to do was engineering - one way or another. While growing up I saw many women choosing either humanities or social science. I then encouraged myself that I want to be different and went straight to engineering” said Mudau. She added that she is happy to be part of women in
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