Facilitator: Governance and Leadership - Polokwane

Learning outcomes: The business of Radio; leading in difficult times; excellence is a matter of attitude; radio value chain as it applies to all stakeholders and leadership habits.

Required: Minimum of 5 years experience as Station Manager or similar role; publications on the subject matter; experience in facilitating workshops;

Desired: Proven knowledge of community radio sector

Facilitator: Sales and Financial Sustainability - Polokwane

Learning outcomes: Calculation of return on investment; secrets of master sales people; create spots for maximum impact; apply proven leadership habits and learn ways to recruit the new and retain old customers.

Required:  Minimum of 5 years experience in radio airtime sales or media sales management; publications on subject matter and experience in facilitating workshops.

Desired: Proven knowledge of community radio sector

Facilitator: Hi-Performance Team Management and Motivation - Polokwane

Learning outcomes: Examining strategies for nurturing and improving staff motivation; learn characteristics that build a hi-performance radio team; learn to conduct performance management according to key result areas and facilitate skills development that enables career development.

Required: Minimum of 5 years experience in managing high performance teams; publications on subject matter; proven knowledge of community radio sector; experience in facilitating workshops and experience in volunteer or NGO environment.

Please note that the approved master copy of learning material should be delivered to NEMISA by no later than 02 March 2012.

E-mail: nokuzolisag@nemisa.co.za

Closing date: 28 February 2012 at 12h00

Identity Development is series of Guest Lectures that fuse elements of problem solving and life skills with an introduction to the Design Practice.  Particular emphasis is placed on the practitioner, their tutelage, their place in the practice (where s/he can practise and in what ways), the attitudes and values of the practice, as well as the practitioner's interactions of other peripheral members of the practice. 

Our third lecture was presented by Thembalethu Msibi on Resourceful Creative Ideas.  She explained that ideas are plentiful; but that we need to aspire to imaginative and inventive ideas: ideas that stand out and are practical. 

Thembalethu shared some designs from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity with the learners.

In her lecturer, Thembalethu showed that it was the simplest ideas that made a large impact.  She emphasised that it was important that students of the creative industries always stay inspired and motivated to create.  In order to do this she encouraged that learners: read often, and read varied materials to keep their minds open to possibilities of the imagination.

*Thembalethu Msibi, a graduate of AAA School of Advertising is a Copywriter with Jupiter Drawing Room, and was previously with Ogilvy South Africa.

We have just celebrated NEMISA’s 10 years of existence, through which time NEMISA has made strides in the transformation of the electronic media and broadcast sector by targeting skills development for youth from disadvantaged, poor areas as well as rural areas which are the risk of losing out on the benefits of the ICT revolution. NEMISA is proud of its contribution to the advancement of these youth by equipping them with skills and values that empower them to be productive and gainfully employed within multimedia and ICT sector.

NEMISA is planning to be a provider of choice in the training and development of skills in the ICT sector, with particular focus on broadcasting and electronic media as contained in our strategy plan for 2011-2014. We plan to develop the foundational aspects of the new NEMISA in this current financial year by strengthening the quality of training programmes that we offer as well as ensure that we fulfil in a much more comprehensive manner the platform for delivery of programmes straddling entry level skills, intermediary as well as skills at Further education and Higher education levels. We shall consolidate our internal capacity to deliver these as well as leverage on strategic partnerships that are being strengthened as well as new ones that are being initiated nationally and internationally with institutions within this sector.

NEMISA will also consolidate our partnerships with partners in especially the poor and rural provinces to expand our footprint thus giving youth from these areas equitable access to skills within easy reach. We shall partner with local radio stations to strengthen their capacity in terms of the range of skills required for them to run their stations on a sustainable level while leveraging their facilities to train quality programmes for stakeholders within those geographical areas.

 We have started a process of carefully planning the resource requirements of carrying through the NEMISA strategy to fruition. We shall develop detailed plans for creating the necessary organisational structure that is well positioned to effectively carry out the new mandate in the most cost effective manner possible. We shall look into the appropriate Human Capital investments that are required, the appropriate Capital Infrastructure investments including an appropriate campus to promote an environment for optimal learning, the IT infrastructure that gives our graduates access to the latest technology entering the market as well as the appropriate IT infrastructure to support entity performance. The glue that will hold everything together will be the development and maintenance of an appropriate organisational culture that optimises and unleashes talent. Appropriate governance and management systems will ensure that NEMISA will increase its rate of productivity to ensure that we do more with minimum cost.

Mr. Ndivhoniswani Tshidzumba
Chief Executive Officer

Our third lecture was presented by Thembalethu Msibi on Resourceful Creative Ideas.  She explained that ideas are plentiful; but that we need to aspire to imaginative and inventive ideas: ideas that stand out and are practical. 

Thembalethu shared some designs from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (http://www.canneslions.com/) with the learners.

In her lecturer, Thembalethu showed that it was the simplest ideas that made a large impact.  She emphasised that it was important that students of the creative industries always stay inspired and motivated to create.  In order to do this she encouraged that learners: read often, and read varied materials to keep their minds open to possibilities of the imagination.

*Thembalethu Msibi, a graduate of AAA School of Advertising is a Copywriter with Jupiter Drawing Room (http://www.jupiter.co.za/), and was previously with Ogilvy South Africa (http://www.ogilvy.co.za/).

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Niq will be facililtating some of the workshops there and we will also be showing our students showreels to the public present.:

Niq Mhlongo is the author of two novels, (Dog Eat Dog, Kwela 2004, and After Tears, Kwela 2007) and three short stories (The Dark Side of Our Street published in German Anthology called Yizo Yizo, Verslag 2005, as Auf der Schattenseite), Golihood Drama was published by Jacana media in 2006 in the anthology called The Obituary Tango, and Betrayal in the Wildernes was published in both Flemish and English by a Belgian publisher. His first novel Dog Eat Dog won the Spanish award called Mar de Letras Intenecionale Prize in 2006, while After Tears was Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award in 2008. Both his novels, Dog Eat Dog and After Tears are also published in the USA by the Ohio University Press. His works have been translated into several languages including, Dutch, Spanish, French, Flemish, German and Italian and he has been featured in more than thirty International literary conferences, fellowships and residencies, including IWP in IOWA (USA). Niq has a BA (majoring in African Literature) from Wits University and doing his MA (Creative Writing) at the same institution. He has facilitated writing workshops in a number of countries, including Ghana, Nigeria, USA, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa. He is now working as writing facilitator at NEMISA (National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa ) TV Department in Johannesburg.

NEMISA has done it again;   3 years in succession.

 The fourth annual CIT:Y Festival organised  by the City of Joburg Directorate: Arts, Culture and Heritage, Arts Alive and the MTN SA Foundation has given recognition to 4 NEMISA students  in the Film and Broadcasting category.

The radio Students – Sweetness Molapo (3^rd), Sibusiso Banda( 1^st) submitted Public Service Announcements and Thabo Mlangeni(2^nd) submitted a  Nemisa Advert ;

Reginald Ralitabo and Mohau Kwebu (3^rd) submitted Jozi Maboneng, a 3 minute documentary that they both produced and directed.

Well done.

NEMISA in partnership with SABC Education has set aside a budget of R 1 500 000 to be offered as bursaries for excellent performing students that are interested in a career in electronic media. The bursaries are open for studies in Animation, Graphic Design, Television Production and Radio Production for a period of one year. In case of Animation and Graphic Design (which are 3 year programmes), further financial support would be considered until 3rd year studies based on continued excellent performance. Students outside Johannesburg can be considered for meals and accomodation costs. The management's decision is final, and no correspondence shall be entered into.

Watch AKANI on SABC2 on Thursdays at 11 o'clock in the morning for further information. Further information is also available on www.sabceducation.co.za or www.nemisa.co.za. You can also call Victoria on 0114840583 or contact info@nemisa.co.za

Applications are now open. The closing date is 30 October 2010. If you have what it takes to undertake studies in electronic media, do not hesitate to contact us now.

The qualifications we train against are:

    * SAQA ID 62069 - National Certificate: Radio Production – Level 5

    * SAQA ID 49127 - Further Education and Training Certificate: Design Foundation – Level 4

    * SAQA ID 61450 - Further Education and Training Certificate: Film and Television Production Operations – Level 4

    * SAQA ID 58394 - National Certificate: Film and Television Production – Level 5

    * SAQA ID 57611 - National Certificate: 2D Animation – Level 5

    * SAQA ID 57607 - National Certificate: 3D Animation and Visual Effects – Level 5

    * SAQA ID 48810 - Bachelor of Design – Level 6

NEMISA is a state-owned-enterprise (SOE) recognized by the Department of Education.