Charmaine Schoultz has worked in Technology, Environmental Affairs, Nature and Wildlife Conservation. She's Passionate about Protecting our Stunning Planet! As Humans, we're Privileged to Inhabit it. The Conservation of Wildlife and Nature will keep our home Spectacular.
Charmaine has turned her Passions into a Renewable Energy career. This Aids the Conservation of our planet and Combats Climate Change. Green Energy is a Major Supporting factor to these causes.
Charmaine runs a Renewable Energy Consulting Company in the Green and Sustainable Energy field. We advise residential, commercial, industrial, farming and municipal clients. We offer Green Energy and Energy Management solutions.
The CSC Energy Group covers all markets and can assist anyone wanting to install sustainable, green energy.
Affordable & Green Energies - CSC Energy Group Managing Director
Charmaine Schoultz
Wietze Post has worked with technology for many years. Farming, greenhouses, computers and solar energy. He's been a research officer in the Dutch greenhouse industry and has managed farms in RSA. He's a graduate of Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.
Wietze runs a renewable energy consulting business. His clients are in the farming, commercial and industrial sectors. The focus is on financial solutions and solar power. Other renewable energy sources, as well as electric commercial vehicles, will be discussed.
He's excited about free sunshine energy!
Wietze's lived in South Africa, The Netherlands, Sri Lanka, and Australia. He's been to China, Europe, Africa, and Peru. So many more places to see!
Affordable & Green Energies - CSC Energy Group
Ir. Wietze Post
Biography coming soon.
Affordable & Green Energies - Green Cape
Michael Leighton
Claire Pengelly is GreenCape's Water Programme Manager. She has a Business Science degree and a Masters in Economics from UCT. She is passionate about promoting development in Africa and her work at GreenCape largely focuses on longer-term projects that aim to create system-wide changes in the way that water is understood and valued. During the recent drought in the Western Cape, she has been leading the team that helped businesses adapt to the water crisis, on behalf of the Western Cape Government and City of Cape Town.
Clean Water & Sanitation - Green Cape
Claire Pengelly
Sarah Rushmere works for the Water and Sanitation Department at the City of Cape Town, on stakeholder engagement and communication. She has 20 years’ experience in promoting water and energy efficiency and sustainable utility services. Her work in South Africa and other African countries includes: advocacy; stakeholder engagement & running forums; ‘social’ marketing approach; development communication; green building and sustainability programmes; research and analysis; public-private partnerships; training and customer service. She has tertiary education in business administration, marketing and social sciences, and a masters’ degree in Urban Infrastructure with a focus on sustainable urban systems and energy efficiency.
Clean Water & Sanitation - Communication and Stakeholder Engagement, Water and Sanitation Department, City of Cape Town
Sarah Rushmere
Prof. Jane English heads Professional Communication Studies in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, UCT. Her research encompasses business communication, gender and the construction industry and also, within the university, the student body as it represents a core of the future managers in industry. Thus, issues of communication, gender and inclusivity (including related areas such as Health and Safety, and HIV/AIDS) are relevant.
​
She has a PhD, Built & Natural Environment (Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland) for which she had a NRF grant within Sustainable Livelihoods: Eradication of Poverty through Developing women in the skilled workforce and MPhil, Construction Economics and Management (University of Cape Town). She was ILO-funded to present at the Tripartite Meeting on the Construction Industry in the 21st Century, Geneva, 2002, on labour in construction and was commissioned to write a Working Paper (with George Mbuthia): Construction Labour Force in South Africa – a study of the informal labour in the Western Cape. Jane has produced numerous research papers (see Academia.edu and ResearchGate) on the diverse but related fields of labour in non-traditional workplaces (e.g. women in construction) and in inclusivity of women in engineering and their preparedness for the workplace.
​
She has created training tools for teaching (presentation skills DVD ‘SpeakEasy’; textbook Professional Communication: Effective Written, Spoken and Visual Messages. 2017. 4th Edition, Juta: Claremont). As a communication specialist, she consults widely to commerce and industry on aspects of written, spoken and interpersonal communication. Corporate clients include Aurecon, GIBB, @Vantage, Old Mutual, Woolworths, Investec, KPMG, the Botswana National Productivity Centre, PriceWaterHouseCooper, Anglo Platinum and Hulett Aluminium. Community / Government and NGO clients include Parliament, Cape Town City Council, Special Investigating Unit, Raymond Ackerman School of Entrepreneurship, Cape Chamber of Commerce, and the National Botanical Institute.
​
Prior to joining UCT, positions she held were: Research Editor: Chamber of Mines’ Research Organisation, and Company Editor - Syfrets; Melton Publications; Southern Life Association; and Books of Africa Publishers.
​
​
​
Gender Equality - Associate Professor, Professional Communication Studies, UCT
South African born, Dr Laurine Platzky was educated in Cape Town. She graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA in Geography, B.Soc Sci in Sociology and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning. She was national co-ordinator for the Surplus People Project, which exposed the forced removal of more than three and a half million people between 1960 and 1983.
After working to empower communities threatened with removal, from 1988 she worked on economic strategies for rural people in a post-apartheid South Africa. Her PhD thesis, “The Development Impact of South Africa’s Industrial Location Policies: an Unforeseen Legacy”, through the Institute of Social Studies finalised in 1995 in The Hague, contributed to her later work for the Reconstruction and Development Programme in the President’s Office.
Following work on the first National Spatial Development Framework, in 1997 she became the Project Manager for the West Coast Investment Initiative with the national Department of Trade and Industry. In 1999 she moved to the Western Cape Provincial Government as Deputy Director-General, where she led Economic Development and Tourism until July 2004. She was then appointed Acting Head of the Western Cape Housing Department. In 2005 she was responsible for Special Projects for the Western Cape Premier, and was appointed Acting Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport until 2006 when she was assigned to coordinate the Western Cape’s work for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Until her retirement from government in November 2017 she led the Strategic Programmes Branch in the Department of the Premier, dealing with policy and strategy, international relations, human rights and major events, amongst other responsibilities.
Currently, amongst a range of activities, Dr Platzky teaches in the Development Policy and Practice Masters Programme at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town and works part-time on special projects for Institutional Planning at the University of the Western Cape. She is a member of the Council of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and consults locally and globally on development policy and practice.
Election's Debate - Strong Institutions
Dr. Laurine Platzky
Back 2 Nature is a growing range of skincare products, inspired by the importance and abundance that nature has to offer us. The range of products include a variety of skincare products as well as toothpaste and sunblock’s. All of which are handmade in small batches, with an abundance of love and gratitude towards nature, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. We consider our products healthy food for the skin. All ingredients used are sustainably sourced, natural, vegan, mostly organic, contain no chemicals, no alcohol, no fluoride, no parabens, no preservatives and very importantly, have not been tested on animals. We package all of our products in plastic free packaging, ensuring we reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible.
Responsible Production - Back2Nature
Chanel Dankert
....
Rédactrice