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Prof Lourens van Staden
Vice-Chancellor and Principaling,
Learning and Technology

Prof Stanley Mukhola
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Teaching, Learning and
Technology Ms Moretlo Mokuele
Executive Director: Human
Resources and Transformation

Mr S’celo A Mahlalela
CFO and Acting Deputy
Vice-Chancellor: Operations Dr Michael Mushaathoni
Registrar

The mission of the linkages network is and then raise money for their start-ups
to position and assist the economy to and graduate. “We don’t have cohorts.
increase its demand for and consumption It is rolling admissions,” he explained.

of innovative products and services that Overall it was a good day for networking,
can be competitively sourced in South knowledge sharing and technology

Africa. All kinds of machines were on development. Activities at the GRC facility
display: The reconfigurable Guillotine in hartfield: it is estimated that start-ups
Shear & Bending Pressing Machine, will collectively raise funding and create

3D Printing Machine, CNC Milling jobs for people who are unemployed in
machine, Vibrating Screen Machine, South Africa, ultimately
Reconfigurable Brick Laying Machine,

Augmented & Virtual Reality Room and
Robot Room. These are all innovative
solutions developed by post graduate

students from the Tshwane University
of Technology. Present were seven (7)

incubatees who each explained their
business ideas. Prof. Mukhola (DVC
Teaching & Learning) was celebrating

his birthday on the day a robot was
programmed to write a birthday message

as a demonstrator of skills being trained
at the GRC. Prof Mpofu said the number
of people working at the incubator will

“constantly increase” as entrepreneurs
and start-up techie come into the program,

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