Episode 5 - Nokubonga Philiswa Mjo

Mzantsi Wakho Podcast

A project manager and community liaison explains the complexities and difficulties of her work in the Eastern Cape, by Nokubonga Philiswa Mjo Nokubonga Mjo (Philiswa Popi) was born Engcobo , Transkei at Eqolweni location and moved to King Williams Town , Eastern Cape as i got married with a guy from King , I started schooling in Engcobo and later on moved to Johannesburg as my mother staying there , thats where i fished up my education . After that i have work have worked at Willards Travel for a year and moved to PE Dioceses project where we were tracing the defaulters and send them back to treatment because of funding it closed buy the end of March 2014 . In October 2014 its when i started to work for Mzantsi Wakho as a research assistant where we doing home visits interviewing the participants in their homes and was promoted to liaising officer here i was keeping the good relations between the Project Stake holders and the community ,from this to being na APM still doing the same and seeing that the team has all the right information,packs, and to what i am now a Project Manager here i am seeing that all things at the office running smooth in the office looking after staff , seeing that we have all the the materials that the team uses are available and also keeping all the relations with our stake holders and community and good and reporting back to our Oxford/ORSA as our head office and making sure that everything is running smooth at the office.