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Rejoice

Ngcongo

Director
IDG-SA

Dr Rejoice Ngcongo is one of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation
the four directors, serving as Scholarships Programme.
Chairperson of Inspirational
Development Group South Africa She is frequently invited to present
(IDG – South Africa) papers and share her very own brand
of thought leadership, particularly in
Rejoice’s, 40 year, career has been the field of leadership for educators.
constituted in the fields of learning Despite her accomplished success, and
and education, spanning secondary never satisfied to rest on her laurels,
and tertiary education both as an Rejoice joined the Allan Gray Orbis
educator and a leader in these Foundation where she led the Human
institutions, in South Africa and Resources and Talent Development
around the world. Her extensive functions.
experience in learning, education and
leadership development, is coupled With a high school teaching diploma,
with her corporate experience in the a Bachelor of Social Science and her
Talent and Human Resources fields. doctorate in Leadership and Conflict
Resolution firmly under her belt,
Her career spans her formative years Rejoice has never stopped learning.
as a secondary and tertiary teacher More recently she has been accredited
and lecturer and later principal. For as a coach, mentor and facilitator.
2 decades Rejoice served as a Senior
Lecturer, Professor of Education
and then Vice Dean of the Faculty
of Education at the University of
Zululand. This experience in the
field of education culminated her
serving as Visiting Professor at the
Universities of South Carolina in the
United States of America, Latrobe
and Victoria in Australia. In her short
stint as a practicing social worker,
Rejoice realised that in order to make
a meaningful contribution, teaching
and solutions to unlock potential,
were essential.

In 2004, Rejoice was appointed as
founding scholarships manager of

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