EMELDA MARILELE

Emelda matriculated in 1998 from Shingwedzi High School. From 1997 to 2000 Emelda was a youth leader and served on the executive committee of the EPC Church of South Africa. In 2002 she served as convener of a Methodist Church.

In 1999 she registered at Technikon Pretoria for her Information Technology Diploma. Emelda studied full time and completed her diploma in 2003. Her favourite subjects are C++ and Cobol, for which she rates her skills as average. Emelda repeated her C++ in first year. In third year Emelda completed a software development project, which was aimed at the data capture of patients records at a hospital, using Oracle. Emelda was the group leader of the project and enjoyed tackling problems in a group as a team.

Emelda completed an internship programme at the HSRC Social Development Department in Pretoria. Emelda also completed an administration course at Pretoria University while completing her internship.

Her short-term goal is to further develop her programming skills.

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