Celeste Johnson is the founder of the Wits Mathematics Competition. She is currently working towards a PhD in Theoretical Physics titled, ‘A bilocal description of the conformal algebra at the critical point in 3 dimensions’. She obtained her Honours and Masters with distinction in Physics and her BSc degree in Mathematics, Physics and Statistics.
Thando Ntuli holds Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Chemistry at The University of the Witwatersrand, Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Mathematics and Physical Sciences) at The University of Zululand and is completing BEd Honours (Mathematics and Sciences) at the University of KwaZulu Natal. He worked as a mathematics and Physical Science educator for 15 years producing high quality matric results with numerous distinctions and pass rates of over 80% on many occasions in a rural area.
Dr. Musa Manzi is a Senior Researcher and Director of the Wits Seismic Research Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand.
The first black South African to obtain a doctorate in geophysics was promoted to associate professor in the School of Geosciences at Wits University on Monday, March 11. Dr Musa Manzi, 35, will return to South Africa later this month from Sweden where he is teaching international masters’ students at Uppsala University about African mineral resources.
When Musa Manzi arrived at Wits University in Johannesburg in 2002, he had little left from the R100 his mother had given him to travel from their poor rural village Mayekeni in KwaZulu-Natal.
As a single mother of six children, his mom couldn’t write her own name and barely scraped a living as a domestic worker. She’d had no way of knowing Musa had to apply ahead for university admission.