User:Ntozelizwe Mqenebe

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Born Ntozelizwe Benjamin Mqenebee May 29, 1980 (age 31) Lomagundi, Bothaville, South Africa

Residence Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Ethnicity African (Xhosa) University of Jahannesburg (Formely Randse Afrikaans University) (Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)) University of Johannesburg (Master of Engineering (Mechanical)) Milpark Business School (MBA)(pending)

Occupation CEO of Lizwe Engineers Group of Companies (100% shareholder in 2009)

Known for Co-founding Eco-Mechanical Engineering in 2008;

Net worth South African ZAR R 6.5 million 2011

Relatives (Shumi, Smanga, Lloyd, Zwelinzima (deceased-2009), Phakamile (brothers)), (Deliwe(sister)(deceased-1998))

Awards Always Position 1 in class Top Ten Student Award (Diphetoho Secondary School) Grade 8 - Grade 9 Best Student in Mathematics and Science (Mmokeng Secondary School) - Grade 10 - Grade 11 Science Across the World (1999)- Grade 12 International Journal of Manufacturing (2009) - M.Eng (Mechanical Engineering)(University of Johannesburg)

Website

http://ntozelizwebenjaminmqenebe.wozaonline.co.za http://lizweengineers.wozaonline.co.za

Ntozelizwe Benjamin Mqenebe (born 29 May 1980) is a South African mechanical engineer and entrepreneur.He is best known for motivating, coaching, mentoring, training and offering engineering consulting services, of which he is chief executive. Lizwe Engineers was founded as a close corporation in 2009 by Mqenebe while he was working as a Mechanical Engineer at VWS Envig, after a he resigned from Eco-Mechanical Engineers. Eco-Mechanical Engineers was formed by Ivan Sibisi. Ntozelizwe Mqenebe and a former colleague Sakhile Mvelase joined Sibisi on a 33.3% shares as both Directors. Mqenebe was a Director in Water & Wastewater and Mvelase was a Director in Electrical and Instrumentation. Sibisi resigned from VWS Envig (Pty) Ltd and joined Kent & Kent, while Mvelase joined a Power Utility in South Africa Eskom. Sibisi have a qualification in B. Sc. (Mechatronics)from University of Cape Town, and Mvelase a B.Sc. (Electrical) from University of Natal. Mqenebe formed Lizwe Engineers and resigned from his position at Eco-Mechanical Engineers as a Director of Water & Wastewater. From VWS Envig (Pty) Ltd Mqenebe resigned due to non-disclosure inline with Eco-Mechanical Engineers.

Personal Life Mqenebe was born in 1980 in Lomagundi, a farm in Bothaville district to Annie Mapule a Domestic Worker, and Frans Tatane Mqenebe a Farm Worker. He and his six brothers and one sister, were brought up in Lomagundi, Laapdorings and later to Kgotsong Township, Bothaville. Mqenebe attended Lomagundi Primary School in 1987 where he failed his Grade 1, and later studied his Grade 1 until Grade 6 at Groot Constantia. His Grade 7 was done at Bothaville Public School, and for his Grade 8 to Grade 9 was at Diphetoho Secondary School. Mqenebe moved to Kanana Township to continue his studies from Grade 10 at Mmokeng Secondary School were he did his Matric in 1999. He won a bursary to study his Engineering field while doing his Matric in 1999 from Umgeni Water.

At both Primary and Secondary School Mqenebe excelled in both his studies in Mathematics and Physics hence the why he won the bursary whilst doing his Matric. He served in the Student Representative Committee on Educational Matters.

Mqenebe was raised Christian he attended Ethopian Church of Africa. He spoke the following languages: S.Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Setswana, Sepedi, Zulu, Afrikaans, Ndebele and English.

Mqenebe is open to making people see their potential in whatever they are doing, and people must always remember that what they are doing is important.

At University

These is where Mqenebe noticed his entrepreneural skills when he could form networks with his Engineering Department from Mechanical, Civil and Electrical site. He both build networks with his IT, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Business Studies, and Legal Expertise.

At Work

Mqenebe when he started working used his initiative to form partnership with his General Manager (Operations) to form a Graduate Trainee program which will be one of a kind for Graduate Student to be employeed on a permanent basis. This was a deliberate process and was fought with a former colleague and former bursar holder Sakhile Mvelase. Dedication and hard work with meetings was the only thing that worked in these initiative. These some how caused sour relationships with us and our direct reports, and leaded to others resigning from their position of responsibility.

Mqenebe is never afraid to open that closed door.

Mqenebe started contracting his services as a Contractor offering Engineering Consulting services on Infrastructure stability to his clients. He started providing expert System Engineering on SAP Systems. He offer as well Maintenance and Reliability expertise to South African companies who wanted to maximize their profit by doing condition monitoring.

He later started offering some courses in terms of training and offering a lot of expertise into a subject matter.