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Co-founder of ByDesign South Africa | passionate communicator | Mom to two crazy kids

Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined April 2010
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This is a great win and brilliant to work with the amazing team at @airstudentSA. They really are entrepreneurs shaking up the SA travel industry. Well done gents.
Congratulations to our PRISMS 2024 Travel & Tourism category winners!  Gold: AirStudent - Entrepreneurs Take Flight - ByDesign Communications Silver: MSC Cruises Splendida – Riverbed Bronze: Time Out Market Cape Town – The Friday Street Club #PRISMS2024
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Well done team @ByDesignComms. Very proud of our team!
Congratulations to our PRISMS 2024 Thought Leadership Profiling category winners! Gold: Youth Employment Service (YES) - Giving you(th) perspective on youth unemployment - ByDesign Communications Bronze: Momentum Health Solutions NHI – FleishmanHillard SA #PRISMS2024
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Such an incredible school and proud to have @SPARKSchools as our client. Well done @stace_d_brewer and team.
We are on top of the world for our client @SPARKSchools after SPARK Soweto was named @T4EduC's 2023 World's Best School in the “Community Collaboration” category last Saturday. Their passion and dedication continue to serve as a beacon of hope within the SA education system.
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Replying to @MyJRA
@MyJRA enough really is enough now. Robot opposite The Dome (Cnr Northumberland and Olivenhout) has been out for months now. Flashing red. There are horrendous accidents happening. This needs to be fixed! @CityofJoburgZA @THEDEVCHEV
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Love these guys. Shaking up the travel industry @airstudentSA 👏👏 @ByDesignComms @BrianKitchin
#TheDriveConnection Ndabenhle Ntshangase & Lwanda Shabalala are co-founders of @AirStudent which enable students travelling between home and university to negotiate better deals with airlines to access more affordable travel.
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Replying to @airstudentSA
Our founders thought of the idea whilst on a Kulula flight from Durban to Cape Town and the business idea was finalised in a dorm room in Cape Town. #AirStudent #Travel #Flights
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Love working with young entrepreneurs! The team at AirStudent is confidently swimming up stream in a staid travel industry. Go Team!!
Welcome to AirStudent. It’s nice to meet you 😎. We’re a travel platform that’s more affordable, more convenient, and more efficient. #AirStudent #Travel #Flights
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In line with our commitment to create felt impact in our communities, Anglo American is proud to partner with @WitsUniversity on the new Digital Dome: The Wits Planetarium reimagined. #ShapingTheFuture
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We work together to develop better jobs, better education, & better businesses in our host communities. It’s why, ultimately, millions of South Africans are positively impacted by mining – because we believe that when SA does well, so do we. #ShapingTheFuture
Today we launch the second phase of our education programme in partnership with the @DBE_SA, doubling our scope & commitment to improving educational outcomes. Follow the proceedings live on the @DBE_SA YouTube channel: youtu.be/6NB7D3g7hAk #ShapingTheFuture
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Congratulations @KingPriceIns - incredible client and we love the work we get to do #ByDesignClients. 👏
One of our clients @KingPriceIns celebrated its 10th birthday today. Here’s to another 10 years as pioneers of the insurance space 🥂😃 #KingPriceTurns10 #ByDesignClients
It’s been exciting to watch the launch unfold over many months! Great to work with clients making such an incredible sustainable impact #nuPossibilities #hydrogen #futuresmartmining #AngloAmericanZA
Congratulations to our client @AngloAmericanZA on the launch of the world’s largest hydrogen powered mine haul track! We are extremely proud to work with organisations who are making a sustainable difference in shaping a better, cleaner world. #nuPossibilities.
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SA is endowed with the world’s largest high-grade resources that play a critical role in the global hydrogen & battery storage sector. Therefore, support for the development of the local green hydrogen sector is important for us. #FutureSmartMining #InvestInSAMining #InvestSA
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Tour of the electrolyser facility at the Anglo American Mogalakwena Platinum Mine. The Mine is today launching the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck. #FutureSmartMining #InvestInSAMining #InvestSA
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President @CyrilRamaphosa has arrived at the Mogalakwena PGM mine in Mokopane, Limpopo where he is officiating the launch of Anglo American’s nuGen™️ Zero Emission Haulage Solution. #HydrogenPower #GrowSouthAfrica
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Today, we unveil our nuGen™ hydrogen truck. A solution so ambitious, it didn’t exist. So we made it from scratch. You can learn more about the truck's journey and watch a livestream of the launch event at 10am UK time today on southafrica.angloamerican.co…
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Vanessa Baard retweeted
I am at the launch of a prototype of the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck at Amplats' Mogalakwena platinum mine. It weighs 220 tonnes and emits zero emissions, a feat of engineering ...
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#nuPossibilities are possible through innovation and wanting to make a sustainable impact on our environment. Exciting #hydrogen launch for #ClimateChange 👏 @AngloAmericanZA
Touch down! After successful laboratory tests in Seattle, USA, our hydrogen power plant module has arrived in South Africa and will replace the diesel engine in one of our mine haul trucks. Learn more here: bit.ly/3w9hIWK #nuPossibilities
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We are at the Anglo American Mogalakwena Platinum Mine for the launch of the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck. We start with a tour of the mine operations #FutureSmartMining #SunriseIndustry #InvestInSAMining #InvestSA
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