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12 June 2024
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Story Lunga Luthuli
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Richard Molefe, a final-year BCom Investment Management and Banking
student at the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently elected uncontested as the National Chairperson of the Black Management Forum (BMF) National Student Chapter. The BMF aims to empower managerial leadership among black individuals in South Africa. Molefe's election signifies a step towards inclusive leadership structures that reflect wider societal values.
In an exclusive interview, Molefe shares his vision for youth empowerment and his plans for the Student Chapter's endeavours.
“The Black Management Forum’s programmes of development and advancement of managerial leadership and socio-economic transformation have exposed me to leadership opportunities that enhance my potential and aspirations. The opportunity is an indication that I have done something right, but I must constantly remind myself that I have not arrived,” said Molefe.
In his one-year term of office, Molefe wants to ensure that national structures of the Student Chapter exist and are functional, key pillars – promoting leadership, managerial leadership development skills, and entrepreneurial skills development in higher education institutions.
UFS evaluates children’s bright ideas
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The University of the Free State’s (UFS) Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences evaluated the business plans of the participants of the Senwes annual entrepreneurial competition. The winner of the primary school division of the competition is Danie Jacobs (back, second from the left) from Jim Fouché Primary School in Bloemfontein. With his winning project “play traditional”, an initiative to get children to play again, he marketed the ingredients for amongst others tip cat (kennetjie) in a little bag. In the second place (front, left) was a group from Koot Niemann Primary School, east of Bloemfontein: Candice Storm, Megan Reep, Chantelle Julius, Shunelle Vorster en Kornisha van Staden. Back from the left is Mr Pieter Esterhuizen, Chief Manager of Senwes Grainlink, Jacobs, Rudo Peens (third place, Sand du Plessis Primary School) and Dr Johan van Zyl, Head of the Unit for Entrepreneurship at the UFS.
Photo: Landbouweekblad
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