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Beverly Barry CEO
Beverley holds a B.A. Speech and Drama (Rhodes University), M.A. Education (Sussex University, UK) and an ABET Certificate (UNISA). She is currently embarking on her doctoral research about the value and branding of education and learning within South Africa. She has worked as an educator within the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng. She has also worked as a development and evaluation consultant in all provinces within South Africa and neighbouring Southern African countries. Her areas of excellence are facilitating collaborative partnerships within large and diverse groups of people towards common purpose. Her passion is facilitating creative processes through the arts. She is a writer; having published popular articles in magazines, developed promotional materials and publishing books. Bev, as she is fondly known, has extensive experience in a range of areas including strategic planning, development work, education training and development, project management, evaluation, research and policy development. She has an impressive record in promoting a culture of learning and teaching within all spheres of her life - both public and personal. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Economic Development in a Learning Province, which promotes and popularises lifelong learning within the province. The flagship project is the Learning Cape Festival, which occurs from 9 August to 8 September annually.
Lieve Vanleeuw
Lieve joined the Economic Development in a Learning Province in April 2008 and was tasked with the challenge to manage the Learning Cape Festival from its planning and preparation stage right through to the monitoring and evaluation stage. Previously, Lieve worked as a project manager for the Arts Media Access Centre, coordinating projects like the 24-hour Stay-Awake Conclave and the development of the Graphic Novel ‘Ayhe!’ Lieve obtained her first Master degree in Philosophy in Belgium, her home country, but decided five years ago that the time had come to go places. After seeing parts of Asia, she landed in South Africa and finished a second Masters in International Relations and Conflict Management. She fell head over heels for this new democracy, decided to quite her job in Belgium and returned to South Africa to share her knowledge and skills where they were wanted and needed. Besides managing the Learning Cape Festival, she is involved in several other capacity building projects for youth that involve audio drama, graphic novels and even documentary filming. Working on the Festival however, has showed her that in order to move forward one must be willing to learn.
Sindy Dondolo
Sindy is a Project Manager for the Economic Development in the Learning Province. She started in 2006 as an intern. She is currently studying Project Management and Events Organising Principles at Cape Peninsula University of Technology Graduate Center of Business. Her primary focus is on youth, having worked on the Youth Optimism Campaign called Masihambe, which has toured much of the Cape as a pilot and has been hosted by the Cape Town Youth Festival 2008.
Some of her artistic products, like poetry, were performed in Mali for the African Renaissance Project in 2003. Occasionally she has performed her poetry at various prestigious events like the commemoration of Dallah Omar, the launch of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) programme and the 1000 learnership programme by the Department of Public Works.
“Working for a learning institution keeps me in touch with the reality that human beings are not born to suffer. They should learn, teach and discover something new daily so that they may grow and become greater life-long-learners. I do this simply because learning has contributed to who I am today,” Sindy says.
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La Donna Morrison
La Donna joined the Economic Development in a Learning Province in April 2007 after working in the Heritage sector for over 4 years. She joined the company as a temporary Administrative Assistant and later became company administrator, with the responsibility of all administrative and financial functions within the organization. Her role in the Learning Cape Festival has been to set up financial systems for all rural and urban areas and manage the finanical aspect of the festival. In 2004 La Donna completed a Project Management course at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and is currently studying part-time to complete a National Diploma in Management at the same institution, to better assist her with her tasks as well as equip her with knowledge and skills for her future.“
Munyaradzi Makoni
Munyaradzi is a freelance writer. In a career that spans 10 years he has worked as a journalist in Zimbabwe as well as a correspondent for various international publications. Until recently, he worked as assistant editor of Moto Magazine, an independent magazine with an intellectual and political approach. His work as a journalist has been published in Zimbabwe, The Netherlands, and Belgium. He studied journalism at Christian College of Southern Africa and Hogeschool van Utrecht in the Netherlands. In South Africa, his stories have appeared in The Big Issue, The Southern Cross, The People’s Post, Scientific Development Network and West Cape News. He joined the Learning Cape as a writer in July, 2008.
Rural and urban festival coordinators
Andre van Schalkwyk
Andre is the manager for urban events. He is a Marketing and Sales specialist. His achievements include obtaining diplomas in Graphic Design, Marketing and Work place Education and Training.
He is a former Senior Executive Manager for Swissport South Africa, Millennium Exportainment (IMAX) and Nedbank, where he was responsible for sales strategy, logistics, marketing, promotions and event management. Thus, he has a comprehensive understanding of the four main spheres of event management namely tourism, entertainment, advertising and financial services.
Andre started his career as a promoter/team leader for Penny Jones Promotions, working on accounts including RJ Reynolds Tobacco, SAB/Miller and Roche Pharmaceuticals. He then switched his focus to the travel and tourism industry and was quickly promoted and relocated to Johannesburg International Airport as head of Passenger Services for Swissport, the South African representative of Swiss airline. He eventually acquired a thorough understanding of international trends, which included ISO9001.
In the last 5 years, he has been involved in the financial services industry as the Regional Sales Manager of micro lending for Nedbank and then as a Private and Investment Banker for Absa Private Bank.
He launched Liquid Chocolate, an Event Management company three years ago where he is fully utilizing his efforts in Project Management and Event Coordination, thus ensuring the company’s continued growth.
Motubatsi AbdulMalik Mosia
“In the name of thy Lord who createth. Createth man from a clot.” Al Qur’an Surah 96, verse 1&2. This verse is what has always inspired Soweto born and Meadowlands raised Motubatsi AbdulMalik Mosia. Motubatsi is the manager of the rural events. He has studied Economics, Strategy and Marketing in Paris France at “L’Institute Superieure de Gestion” (ISG), post matric. He is well travelled having spent a year in London, five years in Paris and many miles through the length and breath of South Africa. He gained much experience and exposure to the first world from being in the Hip-Hop industry as an artist/performer, organizer and Independent Record Company founder whilst studying by the age of 24. He has entrenched himself in the street marketing, T.V production, youth, NGO and event management sectors. In 2005 his company became the creative arm for Short Left Advertising until 2007. He has his pulse on local and international trends at street level. Motubatsi is an eclectic who through his company “Sweet Dreams Entertainment” specializes in originating and producing communication solutions.
In Cape Town, he runs the “Lokshin Suppa Club” - a literal and figurative experience of the township - from Sea Point where tourists enjoy the workshops on township food, culture, storytelling and theatre. Whatever your production needs, be sure that, if you can dream it, Sweet Dreams Entertainment will make it sweet.
Among his previous clients are; SABC, Reliable Music Warehouse, Molotsi Productions, New Wave Media, FCB, SonoCreatives, Network BBDO.