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Chris Cupido is a seasoned academic and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprise (SMME) management. He currently serves as a lecturer in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Management within the Faculty of Business Management and Sciences at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Chris joined the university in 2006 and has been actively involved in teaching, mentorship, and community development, shaping the future of young entrepreneurs.

With a teaching philosophy rooted in nurturing life-long learning and critical thinking, Chris inspires his students to engage with industry-relevant content, fostering creativity and a growth mindset. He uses hands-on activities, classroom discussions, and even humour to develop a collaborative learning environment. He has also facilitated short courses in Business Management and Entrepreneurship, focusing on enterprise development, SMME coaching, and mentoring.

Chris holds a National Diploma in Management, a B.Tech Degree in Business Administration, and an MBA. In addition, he is a certified Pastel Trainer and has been a lecturer at the Cape Technikon since 2003. His role as a lecturer goes beyond the classroom, as he has served as Acting Head of Department (2008-2009), subject coordinator for Entrepreneurship and Financial Management, and Faculty Advisor for the CPUT chapter of ENACTUS.

In his work, Chris has contributed significantly to community engagement projects, particularly within the CPUT spatial community and surrounding rural areas, focusing on enterprise development for subsistence farmers, startups, and SMMEs. His research interests include entrepreneurship education and the unique role of survivalist entrepreneurs in job creation and poverty reduction.

Research and Publications

Chris has supervised four master’s theses and has been an external examiner for UCT. He has contributed to several notable academic publications, including studi

SOWETO, South Africa — On those rare days this year when Soweto’s teachers haven’t been on strike or the pupils boycotting school, Fundi Vabaza has tried to teach business economics to 80 black youngsters squeezed into 30 desks in a classroom without an overhead projector or even a textbook.

Here at Lamula High School, Vabaza says, “You have to bank on their imagination.”

At the whites-only Cape Town High School, where there hasn’t been a strike or a boycott in memory, there are videocassette players, computers, copying machines, laboratories and more than enough textbooks to go around this year.

There just aren’t enough students to fill all the desks.

The result: “We’re no longer able to maintain the school buses, the swimming pool and other facilities purchased when the school was bigger,” says Nugent Field, the principal.

Two typical high schools, one black and one white, supported unequally by the same government, tell the sad story of racially segregated education in South Africa.

And just as the black majority is being called on to join the political process in South Africa, an entire generation of uneducated black youngsters is wandering the township streets without jobs or skills.

“We are sitting on some kind of time bomb,” said Belede Mazwai, a Soweto high school teacher who recently quit in frustration. “Very soon, the kids are going to be taking over this country, and I’m frightened to think what will happen.”

While 200 white schools have closed for lack of pupils in the last decade and 250,000 desks are still vacant, black schools are bulging with a million too many students. While white schools are stocked with all the teaching aids of a modern educational system, black schools lack the basics, from library books

South African musician

Musical artist

Thandiswa Nyameka Mazwai (born 31 March 1976) is a South Africanmusician, and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin. She is also known as King Tha.

Her debut album Zabalaza (released in 2004), which attained double platinum status and her album also got nominated for Planet Awards on BBC Radio 3. Also in 2004, she won Best Female Artist at the Metro FM Music Awards.

Her second album, Ibokwe, released in 2009, was certified gold status within a few weeks after its release.

Early life

Thandiswa Mazwai was born in Eastern Cape in 1976 – the year of the Soweto Uprising – and grew up almost entirely in Soweto, Johannesburg, amidst the heavy apartheid township violence of the 1980s. Both her parents, Belede and Thami Mazwai, were journalists and anti-apartheid political activists, and she recollects that her home was filled with books, articles and thick with political discussions. It was this environment that nurtured her perspective as an artist. She went on to attend Wits University, where she studied English Literature and International Relations. Her work has always been inspired by her mother (who died when Thandiswa was 15 years old) and the writings of people such as Steve Biko and Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe and Kwame Nkrumah.

Family

She is a sister to Nomsa Mazwai, with whom they have a healthy sibling rivalry. She also goes by the name Thandiswa Mazwai Belede, in honour of her mother Belede, who died at the age of 34 in 1992. She is also a sister to the poet Ntsiki Mazwai, who is an author, social activist, producer, and blogger.

Career

Jack-Knife

Thandiswa was a member of Jack-Knife, with Kimon Webster and Themba Smuts. The trio was regarded as pioneers of the kwaito movement, and their songs like "Fester" and "Chommie" were club hits.

Early years a