Founder of African Women Renaissance
Jennifer Lizzie Ngulube MBE
An appointment member of the British Empire honoured by the late her majesty the Queen of England for services to children. Born in Zimbabwe but has lived in the UK for the past 20 years, and having faced challenges and all forms of adversity as a child Jennifer has managed to turn her pain into purpose by using the negative experiences of her childhood into helping children.
She is a holder of a degree in psychology and counselling and is also a retired special-needs teacher. Jennifer is a child protective specialist and has worked with children in the foster care system in the United Kingdom.
Jennifer has as a single parent raised 26 children in the foster care system in the UK over and above her own 4 biological children and an adoptive daughter. Jennifer sits in fostering panels to make safeguarding decisions for children in foster care. Jennifer is a best-selling author and an international motivational speaker. Jennifer’s book "Sailing Through The Storms Of Life" is available on Amazon and she is a contributor on the second volume of "Embracing Imperfections."
Alphius Dube
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Alphius is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and his background is in Education. He has vast experience in Childhood education having worked for the Ministry of Education for 18 years in Zimbabwe. He rose from the position of a classroom teacher to senior teacher and then District Schools Sports Coordinator covering 52 schools in Umzingwane district.
In 2003 he relocated to Johannesburg, where he has accumulated 17 years of experience (and still counting) in corporate training. He believes in human empowerment and upliftment through education and training. He is happy to be involved in the organization, as he feels he wants to ‘give something back’ to disadvantaged members of the society.
Manda Ncube
Manda Ncube was born in Zimbabwe and has lived in the UK all her adult life.
She originally trained as Mental Health Nurse in Bristol. She is trained as a therapist in a number of modalities including Transactional Analysis (TA), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), a specific trauma therapy. Manda also works with Substance Abuse/Misuse and other Addictions.
She currently works as a therapist as well as a Mental Health Practitioner in hospital Accident and Emergency Departments.
Manda is actively involved in local community groups that offer services to people whose needs are not effectively addressed or met by mainstream organisations.
Never Chapepa
Never Chapepa, a qualified teacher in Mathematics, Science, English, Geography and Economics. Bachelor of Education (Unisa) Acredited Certified Educator (Ace) (Wits University) Diploma in Education (Hillside Teachers College). Born in Zimbabwe, moved to SA in 2000 Became a naturalised citizen of SA.
A Deputy Principal at Observatory Girls Primary A Club owner with more than 200 registered members to Netball South Africa, National Netball Umpire a Level 2 National Netball Coach a Senior Pastor of the 12 Apostles Church leading over 300 congregants and a father too.
Stella Mpofu
Qualifications: CA (SA) CA (Z)
Stella is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and has over 23 years of post-qualifying experience in financial management, of which 17 years were in various senior roles in the financial services sector. She currently provides independent financial management consulting services.
Prior to this role, Stella was the Finance Manager at Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Managers (Pty) Ltd, a company that manages an infrastructure private equity fund based in Johannesburg, South Africa. During the seven-year period before that she was the Chief Financial Officer at Kwa-Zulu Natal Growth Fund in Durban, South Africa.
Stella has also held various senior management roles for MBCA Bank Limited, CGU Insurance Company in Zimbabwe as well as Harod Spring Limited and Halifax Limited in Mauritius.
Stella is passionate about the wellbeing/development of women and participates in various initiatives such as Virtuous Women’s Wellness Forum, Menopausitivity (a menopause support group for women) and African Women Renaissance.
