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Nandipha Rambau

8th May 2015

  

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Full Name: Nandipha Rambau

Position: Director of Diba

Main Activity of the Company: Diba has two divisions – construction and health and safety consulting – both of which I oversee

Date and Place of Birth: July 5, 1983, Cape Town

Education: Matric, Fezeka High School, 1999; national diploma in environmental health, Technikon Witwatersrand, 2003; BTech (environmental health), University of Johannesburg (UJ), 2004; environmental noise management certificate, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), 2006; project management course, UJ, 2006; project management course, UJ, 2006; introduction to environmental management course, TUT, 2007; air quality management certificate, TUT, 2007; introduction to environmental management certificate, North-West University, 2007; integrated five-star system navigator course, Nosa, 2011; introduction to concrete certificate, Cement & Concrete Institute, 2011; international construction certificate, Nebosh, UK, 2013; national diploma in civil engineering, University of South Africa

First Job: Environmental health practitioner for the Gauteng Department of Health

Career History Prior to Current Position: I have worked for the Gauteng Department of Health as an environmental health practitioner and the Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality as a senior environmental health practitioner

Management Style: Bureaucratic, coupled with empowering people to independently and creatively carry out their duties

Personal Best Achievement: Reaching a state of self-awareness, which enabled me to constructively criticise myself and make peace with the best and the worst of me

Professional Best Achievement: Growing my construction and occupational health and safety business gradually for the past ten years

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My mother, grandmother and husband

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: All women who have made names for themselves, including Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Malawi President Joyce Banda and the very tenacious Dr Thandi Ndlovu, of Motheo Construction Group

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Cyril Ramaphosa and Michelle Obama

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Cyril Ramaphosa and Allon Raiz

Philosophy of Life: Live! Love! Have! Give!

Biggest Ever Opportunity: It’s just around the corner

Biggest Ever Disappointment: I never allow disappointments to stick around in my mind for a long time

Hope for the Future: That all tertiary institution courses include an entrepreneurship module

Favourite Reading: Many, including The Power of Focus, by Jack Canfield and Own Your Industry, by Douglas Kruger. I am currently reading What I Know for Sure, by Oprah Winfrey

Favourite TV Programme: I do not really have one, but I enjoy business and educational programmes, with psychic detectives and cartoons on my downtim

Favourite Food/Drink: Any creamy and cold dessert/Coke with lots of lemon

Favourite Music: Afro pop (Thandiswa, Lira, Camagwini, Ringo) and hip-hop. One also needs a bit of Mendelssohn and Mozart from time to time

Favourite Sport: Cycling and swimming

Favourite Website: www.diba.co.za

Hobbies: Casually cycling around with my family, and road trips

Pets: Bubbles, my Terrier dog (small mixed breed)

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Long queues and crime

Favourite other South African Company: Aurecon and Royal Haskoning.

Favourite Foreign Company: None, but I closely follow health and safety consulting companies, especially those in the UK, since that country’s health and safety laws are similar to South Africa’s

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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