User:Ndu.majozi

Nduduzo Patrick Majozi, also known as Ndu Majozi, was born on 21 June 1980 in small town of KwaZulu-Natal, Empangeni.

He attended Primary school at Emasangweni Lower Primary School which is now a Higher Primary School. When he graduated to Grade 5, he moved to Thandinkosi Mission School where he read for Grades 5 and 6 and became a top performing student in class.

In 1993, he moved to Mngampondo Combined Primary School to finish Grade 7. He graduated to High School as a top 3 student in his Grade 7 class.

In 1994, he joined Hawulethu High School near Melmoth. Because of violent activities that had developed at Qondindlea, where students rioted against some of their teachers, Nduduzo's parents moved him to the then newly-opened High School, Qondindlela High School, in his parents home, Emasangweni in June 1995.

At Qondindlela High, Nduduzo became a hit and a top performer. He ended the year as the top performing student at Grade 9. Between 1996 and 1998, he was chosen the School Captain, and the Chairman of the Debate Team, representing the school in different debate activities. He was also the President of the Student Christian Movement after being hand-picked by his then Maths and Physics teacher, and a founder of the SCM, Mr Njabulo Hlakaniphani Mabaso.

Mr NH Mabaso left Qondindlela to head up another school in Ndundulu near Melmoth, and the SCM was left on Nduduzo and his team.

In 1998, Nduduzo became the top and best Matriculant from Qondindlela. As of Jan 2010, he remains the best student from Qondindlela's matric classes. He wrote 7 subjects on a Higher grade, including Maths, Physical Science, Biology, English, Afrikaans, Zulu, and Geography and got excellenet marks.

In 1999, he joined the Unuviersity of Zululand in the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal, through a funding scheme for top performing Science students offered by the University. He read for BSc Computer Science and obtained his degree with first class pass in December 2001.

Between 1999 and 2001, he also was nominated the best achiever in Scripting languages and was a Class Captain in 2000.

In 2001, he was a Tutor to first year Computer Science students under the supervision of Professor Mathew Adigun, and a Lab instructor for the Computer Literacy programmes at the University.

In 2002, he left KwaZulu-Natal to join PC Training & Business College's main campus in Johannesburg as a Lecturer. Among his responsibilities was to deliver lectures to, and compile study guides for Programming and Information Systems students. He was later appointed Head of Web Design Department.

In 2003 September, he joined the then SCMB [Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank] as a junior Software Developer. After that he also worked for Mint Net and GijimaAst's GMSI before moving to Hollard Insurance in Parktown in Jan 2006.

Ndu was initially involved in the Retail Personal Lines IT project for Hollard Australia. He developed a motor warranty IT project for Auto Protect [Hollard's UK company]. In 2007 he moved to oversee the integration of the Auto Protect project from September 2007 to February 2008. He acted as Project Coordinator for the SA and UK technical teams. In Feb 2008, he moved back to Hollard South Africa to join the Reinsurance project team under the great leadership of Dr Mantsika Matooane [Head of Group Technology: Hollard SA].

After that he worked on the Callmaster [Call centre management] project for Hollard from mid 2009 to mid 2010.

In Jan 2010 he obtained a certification in Project Management with the University of Johannesburg [UJ] formerly RAU. He then enrolled for the Management Advanced Programme with the University of Witwatersrand [Wits].

Hollard recorgnised Ndu's natural leadership skills coupled with his well-developed technical skills as a Senior Software Developer for the division, and promoted him to Project Manager/Systems Analyst.

Ndu is currently reading IT Governance. His long-term goal is to start his Software Development and IT Governance consultancy business.

On a personal note, he is involved in a relationship with Cabangile from Empangeni and they have twin kids: Unathi [girl] and Simphiwe [boy] born in November 2004.

He is Christian and credits everything that he has achieved in his life to The Almighty God.

He enjoys sports, politics and humanitarian courses. His long-term goal, on a personal level, would be to go back to his High School [Qondindlela] to teach and inspire the youth to dream big and follow their dreams.

He can be contacted on 083 923 9751 or email: ndu.majozi@gmail.com.