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Frank Fredericks

Frank Fredericks is a successful entrepreneur with more than 40 years’ experience mainly in the construction and the built environment – he serves on various related boards and is passionate about community enhancement and skills development. The founder and owner of Rainbow Construction Cape (Pty) Ltd who has been involved in the building of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) – and the extensive and massively successful renovation of Cape Town International Airport and various other construction and property development projects. Rainbow Construction is internationally recognized and has been awarded the prestigious 23rd International Construction Award (New Millennium Award) in Paris in May 2011. This international award, was created in Europe in order to reward firms from all over the world which have distinguished themselves in the construction and ancillary industry.

Frank has an array of other business interests primarily as shareholder in both the public as well as the private sector which include training initiatives, agriculture, aviation, media, mining, power plants, renewable energy, as well as property development, electrical engineering, transaction advisory consultancies and ICT. Frank is extremely blessed and well versed in corporate governance, understands the power of coaching/mentoring and is passionate about training and development by virtue of his diverse business involvement and giving back to the community as a leader. He is a member of the board of the Mitchells Plain Education Forum.

He brings a holistic business savvy that compliments and add tremendous value to most organizations and companies as he quickly adapts and share the same vision, culture and values of excellence, deadlines and quality control from the drawing board to project end!

Colleen Daniels

Colleen Davids has been involved in Early Childhood Development for more than 29 years and has been part of the evolving ECD landscape noting that not much has been done in terms of regulating the ECD sector and bringing about professionalism. She is an accredited Assessor, Facilitator and Moderator.

A self-motivated determined, confident and not afraid of a challenge person. Whatever she set her mind to do she does to the best of her ability. A leader and able to work on her own. Using her initiative in situations that require immediate decisions and accept the responsibility for whatever the outcomes is. She is able to work under pressure and have the ability to also beyond what is expected of her.

Elected chairperson of the Western Cape Early Childhood Development Forum as well as serving on the Mitchell’s Plain Education Forum – an initiative of Minister Trevor Manuel and Marius Fransman. Currently also involved at local provincial and national level of government attending workshops on development policies around ECD.

Very passionate about the ECD field and believe that every child in our country should be in an effective best practice quality ECD centre with the best practice ECD practitioners. A very strong believer in inclusive education for special needs learners. She brings to the facilitation process strong inclusive strategies and a mother of two young men who are defined as special needs as well as an involvement with Inclusive Education Western Cape.

In terms of facilitating she does intervention strategies with learners who struggle around concepts even if it means working after hours to achieve competency. Colleen also runs her own business as well as an accredited ECD site in Strandfontein. She enjoys crafts, the outdoors, baking, reading and do a bit of belly dancing as well.

Wendy Gamiet

Wendy Gamiet has experience as a dedicated group operations executive and an effective leader who excelled in managing 5 facilities nationally with a workforce of over 3500 workers.  She is an established professional with extensive operations and manufacturing experience developing strategies, streamlining processes and building systems aligned to business objectives, in addition to adopting innovative cutting edge technology, enforcing a culture of discipline and driving lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and quick response methodologies. She has successfully implemented strategies that have improved quality standards, turnover, OTIF, cost and waste reduction, employment, efficiencies, customer service, supply chain and plant expansion. Wendy is a strong result driven leader focused on implementing training and development initiatives to achieve optimal performance and profitability within a customer centric environment. She aims to maximize her expertise by utilizing her experience to add value within a reputable organisation. Wendy is currently a business owner of a company called Oktiq sales and gifting and oversee all processes of sales and marketing with the aim to maximize sales.

Beverley Du Plessis

Beverley Du Plessis is a director and the Office Administrator of the Mitchells Plain Skills Centre.

She holds a Bachelors Degree in Sport Science and completed her SDF, Assessor and Moderator qualifications with the MPSC. Since 2006 she worked for various companies in mostly leadership and management capacity.

Beverley is passionate about Training, Development and Empowering the community and is a member of the Mitchell’s Plain Education Forum and Mitchell’s Plain Integrated Development Forum.

Karl Mocke

My name is Karl Mocké, and I hail from Strandfontein, Mitchell’s Plain. My family moved to Strandfontein, from Bonteheuwel, in 1979, when I was 9 years old.

I attended both the Strandfontein primary and secondary schools in the area, the latter from which I matriculated in 1987.

Due to various socio-economic conditions, I was unable to further my studies at a tertiary institution, and proceeded to accept an administration position in the corporate world, at Southern Life Association Ltd.

Through the years I had managed different positions (complimented by part time studies) in the private sector, from administration, on to computer programming and finally my last position held was that of business analyst. The companies I worked for included Southern Life Ass Ltd, Old Mutual plc, Momentum Life, First National Bank and Santam Insurance Ltd. While my career seemed on track, professionally, I experienced a wholly untransformed private sector, and became increasingly frustrated with the treatment meted out to black employees in my tenure in this industry.

In 2011 I made the decision to plough back into my community, by harnessing my technological/administration skills with my passion for community work, and got involved with various community projects, via community organisation (Strandfontein Social and Economic Development Forum) as well as political activity (African National Congress). I am currently employed as an Administrator / Office Manager in the ANC Parliamentary Constituency Office, Mitchell’s Plain.

James Mentor

James Edward Mentor is a director of the Mitchell’s Plain Skills Centre and a member of the Mitchell’s Plain Education Forum.

He specializes in Financial Management, Accounting and Audits and have work for quite a number of companies since 1977 and runs his own practice, JEM Accountants and Administrations (Pty) Ltd.

He is also a member of the Institute of Administration and Commerce as an Accounting Technician.

James has a wealth of experience and the capability to assist in developing office systems, processes, procedures, corporate governance and the implementation thereof. He has excellent interpersonal and communication and computing skills of an advanced quality.