Tebogo Thothela
Tebogo Thothela currently serves as a Parliamentary Counsellor to the Gauteng Premier as well as Director Strategic support to the Director General of the Province.
He previously served in a similar role at the Gauteng Department of Health. He is no stranger to leadership even at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½, having previously served on the University Council, Senate, Institutional Forum and SRC. He has also served in a number of Higher Educations structures including being the Deputy President of the SAUS, and various other Ministerial and Presidential committees on higher education.
Tebogo Thothela holds a BCom Law, LLB and LLM all from Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ University. He is currently reading towards his second masters, Master of Public Administration, at the University of Pretoria.
Other achievements
- Appointed by former President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency Mr Jacob Zuma, to sit as part of a 13-member “Presidential task team on short-term student funding”,
- Served on the management committee of the South Africa Student Solidarity Foundation for Education (SASSFE)
- Speaker at the prestigious 2018 Oxford Africa Conference
- Mail and Guardian's Top 200 Young South Africans in 2019