Duncan Clough

UCT Ubunye Representative

Duncan Clough is a Masters student at the University of Cape Town.  He is currently involved with TeachOut, an organisation that provides after school tutorial classes for students in disadvantaged schools in Cape Town.  TeachOut and SAEP have worked together on a number of occaisons over the past 5 years.  TeachOut is also a project of Ubunye, an umbrella organisation for three other projects at UCT with which SAEP has often collaborated.  Duncan currently represents Ubunye on the SAEP Management Committee.

David Golder

PDP Courier, Founder

After completing High School at Highgate School in London, David Golder joined the Royal Air Force for Short Service Commission. He attended London University for a Government sponsored course in economics, after which he took a gap year to live in Paris and work for The Grolier Society. During his business career, David worked for Goulston Discount Company (hire purchase finance) and subsequently became director of the Midlands subsidiary. Next, he became the Business Career Founder of Heath Street travel in London. This Company, which arranged travel and accommodation for business executives on a global basis, was sold to Thomas Cooke subsidiary. He also pursued investments in three sports stores in Surrey, which were sold to Harrods subsidiary. In 1998, David founded a new business called PDP Courier, an international clinical trials & healthcare specialist courier that specializes in delivering time and temperature-sensitive material anywhere in the world. After this company was sold for £10,000,000 to private equity as a management buy in July 2007, David decided to dedicate his retirement to sharing his business expertise with SAEP in an advisory capacity. David has been a sitting on SAEP’s Management Committee since December 2009.   

Helena Duk

Just Do It (JDI) Trust

Nokhaya Manxiwa Nqeza

Nokhaya Manxiwa Nqeza was born in the Eastern Cape as Nomsa Manxiwa before she got married to John Makhaza Nqeza. Nokhaya moved to Cape Town to further her secondary education and later went to adult learning. Nokhaya worked for various people as a domestic worker for more that 6 years.

In 1996, with the help of her mother, Nokhaya opened a crèche called Qhamani Educare Centre to serve local children. In 2003, she met Jane Keen and SAEP. Since then, all is history. Nokhaya cant even begin to describe the help she has received from SAEP ever since they started working together. Nokhaya and SAEP celebrated the grand opening of her new building in April 2009. She is proud to now own and run the only double-storey ECD Centre ever build in Philippi township, all thanks to SAEP.

Nokhaya has recently completed the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level 4 and has registered to complete level 5 at North Link College in Parow. "I am a better person now, I see and tackle things in different perspective thanks to SAEP for a continued motivation"

Nobuntu Mkhencele

ECD Representative

Sindiswa Tebeka was born and raised in the Eastern Cape. After marrying, she changed her name to Nobuntu Mkhencele in 1982. In 1989, Nobuntu relocated to Cape Town. On her arrival, she started working on a project knitting jerseys for sale and at the same time working as a domestic worker in Mitchell's Plain. In 1994, she decided, after having been taking care of  6 children from the neighbourhood, to open her own crèche, which she called Zamukhanyo Educare Centre. Zamukhanyo has since grown from a two-roomed shack to a new building with five rooms serving around one hundred local children, thanks in part to the assistance of SAEP. Nobuntu is the chairperson of the Safety Unity Crèche Forum, a forum which is made up of 16 crèches working with SAEP in Philippi. Nobuntu says, "I was born to be a leader and a role model, and I will die caring and building a better future for disadvantaged children."