- Tel: +27 (0)12 382 6610
- Email: sefoloshaa@tut.ac.za
- Diploma in General Nursing, Psychiatry, Community and Midwifery (Groothoek Nursing College),
- B.Tech. Occupational Health and Nursing Administration (TUT)
- PGD in Health Promotion (UL)
- Master of Public Health (UL)
- PhD: Public Health (Current study)
- Mental health problems
- HIV and STIs
- Substance abuse
- Unwanted /unplanned pregnancies
- Gastro-Intestinal problems
- Urinary tract Infections
- Poverty
- Sicknote disease
- GBV
- +27 (0)15 268 3561
- mahlodi.maphakela@ul.ac.za
- Tel: +27 (0)11 559 3837
- Email: mgeya@uj.ac.za
- Tel: +27 (0)35 902 6158
- Email: mtetwam@unizulu.ac.za
- Tel: +27 (0)16 910 3120
- Email: 22436065@nwu.ac.za
Annah Sefolosha
National Executive, Conference Committee
Dr Annah Sefolosha
SAACHS - Treasurer
Dr Annah Sefolosha is a R/N, RM and OHN. She is currently working as Head of Department, Directorate of Health and Wellness at Tshwane University of Technology. Her responsibilities include managing PHC services including HIV and counselling services. Her interest is in sexual and reproductive health of the youth.
In 2020 she was elected as Treasurer of SAACHS, where her responsibilities includes providing financial advice to the executive, and reporting financial expenditures/statements.
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Edward Dongola
Limpopo Executive Committee, Conference Committee
Edward Dongola
SAACHS Chairperson, Limpopo Region
Acting Head: Campus Health, University of Venda
Mahlodi Maphakela
National Executive, Conference Committee, Speaker
Sr Mahlodi Maphakela
SAACHS - Secretary
Clinical Nurse Practitioner, University of Limpopo
Mahlodi Maphakela is a Registered Nurse with more than two decades of practical experience. After completing her training in 2001 she practiced as a Professional Nurse at Mankweng Hospital in Polokwane. In 2005 she took up a post as Chief Professional Nurse at Magaliesoord Rehabilitation Centre, returning to Mankweng Hospital in 2011 to work as an OHS and Infection Control Nurse.
She joined the University of Limpopo in 2012 as an OHS Nurse and is currently working as a Clinical Nurse Practitioner.
Mahlodi is passionate about research. She is studying toward her PhD in Public Health, and as an alumni of the University of Limpopo supervises several MPH students. She also does co-coding for qualitative research papers. Mahlodi has presented her work at the National Aids Conference in June 2019 and at the Limpopo Department of Health Research Day in October 2019.
She served as Editor in Chief for SAACHS Perspective from 2017 to 2019, and was elected to the role of Secretary General of the Association in 2019.
Mahlodi lives by the mantra by Sean Gregory Derrick - “No one knows everything, but everyone can learn something.”
Education
2023 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION | Day 2
Home away from home: The key health and wellness issues
associated with helping students graduate alive and healthy
As students say, “Ke ga mma ga a mpone”, loosely translated as my mother is not around to see what I am doing.
Students at institutions of higher learning inevitably explore their independence and relationships - and mostly their sexuality. Often they make bad choices and decisions.
This presentation shares lessons from the multi-disciplinary approach utilised by the University of Limpopo to ensure that students receive holistic care and are guided how to make appropriate, informed decisions critical to their wellbeing, so that they graduate alive and healthy.
The University of Limpopo Health and Wellness Centre has implemented a multi-disciplinary team approach to meet student health needs, foster student wellbeing and support a conducive learning environment. Their professional team comprises a sessional doctor, clinical nurse practitioners, a social worker, a pharmacist, HIV counsellors, health promoter, condom distributor, data capturer and administrative staff. It includes is a proper referral system to Hospital, Gender desk, Dietician, CEA and Psychology.
Key health and wellness issues identified include:
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Matsontso Mathebula
National Executive, Conference Committee
Dr Matsontso Mathebula
SAACHS - Deputy Chairperson
Dr Matsontso serves as the Deputy Director Campus Health and Counselling in the Sefako Makgatho Health Science University. He has over a period of more than fifteen years served as the campus doctor for the various stages of this fledgling university.
With a wealth of leadership positions in the NGO sector and working with young people both nationally and internationally, his contribution will facilitate the work of SAACHS an position it to better fulfil its mandate. He sees these institutions as a source of information that can be tapped through research therefore contributing to the body of knowledge and implementations of evidence based medicine.
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Tell: +27 (0)12 521 5711
Email: matsontso.mathebula@smu.ac.za
Presentation:
Beyond the HEllscape: Higher Education from 2018 to 2022 and beyond; | Day one
Miemie Geya
National Executive, Conference Committee, Speaker
Sr Molimi Geya
SAACHS - Chairperson
Miemie Geya is Director: Centre for Student Health & Wellness at University of Johannesburg focusing on students’ health and well-being. She is passionate about young people and hopes to bring health services as close to them as possible.
She was elected as a chairperson of SAACHS in 2020.
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Presentation:
Official Welcome: Day one
Ms L Silombo
Limpopo Executive Committee, Conference Committee
Ms L Silombo
SAACHS Secretary, Limpopo Region
Health and Wellness Sister, University of Mpumalanga
Ms M Mojapelo
Limpopo Executive Committee, Conference Committee
Ms M Mojapelo
SAACHS Vice Chairperson, Limpopo Region
Clinical Nurse Practitioner, University of Limpopo
Ms N Ndou
Limpopo Executive Committee, Conference Committee
Ms N Ndou
SAACHS Treasurer, Limpopo Region
Social Worker, University of Limpopo
Mxolelwa Mthethwa
National Executive, Conference Committee
Mr Mxolelwa Mthethwa
Deputy Secretary, SAACHS National Executive Committee
Mr Mxolelwa Mthethwa is a Clinical Nurse Practitioner currently working as HAST Co-ordinator HIV/AIDS at UniZulu campus. He is passionate about the wellbeing of young communities.
In 2020 he was elected as a Deputy Secretary General of SAACHS, where his responsibilities include writing memos, filing and retrieving corporate documents, records and reports, and assisting the secretary.
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Sizeni Mabunda
Limpopo Executive Committee, Conference Committee
Sizeni Mabunda
SAACHS Secretary, Limpopo Region
Clinical Nurse Practitioner, University of Limpopo
Tshidiso Ntshabele
National Executive, Conference Committee
Mr Tshidiso Ntshabele
Head of Department: Health Care Centre at NWU
Mr Tshidiso Ntshabele is the Head of Department: Health Care Centre at North-West University. He serves as a board member of South African Nursing Council (SANC) and is studying for an MPH at the University of Johannesburg. He is passionate about the nursing profession.
In 2020 he was elected as Editor in Chief of SAACHS, where his responsibilities includes Editing content (articles, photographs), setting editorial guidelines (tone or voice for SAACHS), and representing the Association.
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