Fezile Simelane

Green Knot is a collector of used cooking oil that is subsequently used as a feed stock in bio‑fuels production in South Africa. The feed stock is sourced from the hospitality, retail and food manufacturing industries in Eswatini. The company was founded by myself and a partner in June of 2021. Green Knot currently has 3 individuals in its employ. My primary role at the company save for general management of the business involves business development and client relations. Notable achievements include onboarding the likes of PnP, OK Foods, Shoprite, Futis, Kellogg Tolaram and Fedics Food Services as clients. Green Knot has also been an official 'green/waste partner' of the MTN Bushfire and Standbank Luju festivals since 2022. I have since taken a less active role at the company as I pursue other interests and opportunities.

Geo Solutions is a bespoke geological consultancy that specialises in geotechnical investigations for construction projects, mining advisory and environmental assessments.

My role included;

• Geological core logging
• Soil sampling and analysis
• Soil profiling using dotPlot software
• Geological modelling with the use of Leapfrog
• Geological database management

Inceptum is a company that has developed an app that allows sugarcane growers to monitor tonnage of sugarcane delivered to the sugar mill by hauliers. My time with Inceptum consisted of meeting with cane growers to sell them on the value of the product. I also assisted the hauliers, in particular the drivers, with how to work their way around the app.

Eswatini Electricity Company ‑ Kenya Generation Company Geothermal

Pre‑feasibility Exploration Project.

I worked as a junior geologist on an exploration project,the purpose of which is to determine the viability of geothermal energy production in Eswatini. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to be deployed across the geology(geological field mapping),geochemistry(CO2 flux rate and water sampling and chemical analysis)and geophysics(Magnetotelluric‑MT)teams,respectively

In June 2022, I was employed by the university's Future Africa initiative as an assistant when the university hosted the Sustainability, Research and Innovation Congress 2022.

My job largely entailed assisting presenters, with IT-related issues.

In 2017, I worked on transcribing research interviews conducted by MBA students at the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science(GIBS).

I also did data analysis using Excel for these students, which aided them in narrowing down and collating the information/data they had collected as part of their studies/research.