Bert Sorgdrager, Council chairperson; Dr Anna Mokgokong, chancellor; and Prof Bismark Tyobeka, principal and vice-chancellor, in the course of the affirmation of Dr Mokgokong’s second time period as chancellor.
The North-West College (NWU) has confirmed famend enterprise chief and entrepreneur Dr Anna Mokgokong’s second time period as chancellor. This was confirmed throughout a prestigious occasion in Potchefstroom on 12 March, after the NWU Council elected her for an additional 5 years. Dr Mokgokong ended her first time period on 20 November 2024. As chancellor, she serves as titular head of the NWU, and all {qualifications} awarded by the college are formally conferred by her.
“It’s an honour for me to be afforded the chance to serve a second time period as chancellor of the NWU,” says Dr Mokgokong. “This offers me a possibility to proceed to serve the NWU. As I embark on my second time period, my sense of goal and willpower for what we have to obtain collectively has by no means been stronger. I’m keen to construct the legacy that may bear testimony of my tenure.”
Dr Mokgokong says she believes that no job is ever actually completed. “We will all the time do higher, be higher and goal greater. We will all the time work tougher – as a result of what we’re working for is larger than ourselves. This perception has been an indicator of my profession, and it’ll proceed to information me within the years to come back.”
Illustrious entrepreneurial profession
She is the co-founder and Government Chairperson of Neighborhood Funding Holdings, a 100% black-owned firm that was established in 1995. Dr Mokgokong is a real social activist who has made immense contributions to the transformation of the businesses on whose boards she serves.
Along with contributing her in depth enterprise information and acumen to the NWU, she has served on the boards of a number of JSE-listed corporations and as president of the South African Girls Entrepreneurs Community (SAWEN).
A former president of the Worldwide Girls’s Discussion board of South Africa (IWFSA), Dr Mokgokong was inducted in 1998 into Girls Entrepreneurs of the World, an unbiased, worldwide community of the world’s strongest and profitable entrepreneurs. Over time, she has acquired quite a few accolades, the most recent from African Girls in Enterprise (AWiB) in partnership with Regenesys Enterprise College, which offered her with the distinguished Excellent Management Award in the course of the Inaugural AWiB Convention awards ceremony in August 2024.
Dr Mokgokong obtained a BSc from the College of Botswana, and an MBChB from the Medical College of South Africa. She is the primary lady to have acquired an honorary doctorate of commerce from Unisa.
Bert Sorgdrager, Council chairperson, congratulated Dr Mokgokong on her re-election and expressed his gratitude for the energetic position that she performs throughout the NWU group. “Being the chancellor of the college requires a particular particular person with particular abilities and particular attributes. You can’t simply take any particular person and make them the chancellor. It’s a distinctive position, requiring a novel particular person, and the NWU is so lucky to have you ever, Dr Mokgokong. We actually thanks for that.”
Prof Bismark Tyobeka, principal and vice-chancellor of the NWU, says from the second Dr Mokgokong assumed the chancellorship, she has been greater than a ceremonial determine. “She has been an energetic drive in shaping the NWU’s strategic course. As a globally recognised entrepreneur, she has leveraged her affect to place the NWU as a key participant in innovation, analysis and improvement.”
He says her imaginative and prescient aligns seamlessly with the NWU’s mission of educational excellence, societal affect and international engagement.
“Her dedication to forming significant partnerships has opened new avenues for the NWU, strengthening {our relationships} with quite a few business companions, authorities entities and plenty of different collaborators.”
In keeping with Prof Tyobeka, Dr Mokgokong’s strategic management has been transformative for the NWU, significantly for college students within the well being sciences, and extra lately for MBA college students.
“She has mentored many ladies by means of our Girls in Management programme and has ensured that the NWU stays an area the place all expertise thrives. By way of her in depth networks, she continues to raise the college’s public profile, working in direction of securing important investments and partnerships that assist pupil success. Her involvement in advancing the NWU Medical College mission has been pivotal in accelerating the institution of the varsity, and her efforts have delivered important outcomes.”
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