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DR VENNAN SIBANDA’S

GRADUATION STORY

t is with utmost appreciation and reviewed publications. Gibela further
acknowledgment of the opportunity that fuelled the research fire sponsoring of the
I
I have enjoyed during my study period, GIBTUT conference, where researchers
all due to the funding that cushioned my were exposed to further energy-boosting

journey. The few names singled out here research presentations that championed
represent those whose silent support participation in the Jigs project. Gibela’s
cannot be taken for granted. The Gibela research did not tire as the research
Research Chair, the Department of momentum was kept at top speed by

Industrial Engineering and TUT played visits to various research sites like the
a critical role in ensuring that I complete Research Writing Workshops, GROWS,
my studies without a shadow of a doubt. and manufacturing indaba, among others.
This approach by funders oiled the research
Gibela, through the Gibela Research machinery that produced the design of a
Chair, funded my trip to an international prototype Reconfigurable Guillotine Shear

conference in Victoria Falls, 2016, an and Bending Press Machine answering to
initiative that put my research on the world the needs of SMMES. Under the auspices
stage. The confidence and enthusiasm of the support, several publications and

accrued built a classical enthusiasm that prices were realised. The appreciation of
drove the zeal for success. this magnitude of funding support should go
down in the history books of empowerment
Research, from that point, was a playfield efforts that saw no segregation of people
of knowledge emancipation that saw under nationality or colour but precipitated
the accumulative production of peer- the empowerment agenda of the continent.

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