- Countries
-
Topics
- All Topics
- Europe and Africa External Relations Food and Agriculture Game Parks Governance Health Human Rights ICT Infrastructure Innovation International Organisations Investment Labour Land and Rural Issues Latin America and Africa Legal Affairs Malaria Manufacturing Media Middle East and Africa Migration Mining Music Music Reviews NCDs NGO
- Entertainment
- Business
- Conflict
- Environment
- Health
- Sport
- Travel
- All Topics
- Development
- BizTech
- Entertainment
- Sport
- Africa/World
- Governance
- Multimedia
- Innovation
- Sustainability
GE Africa (Lagos)
How the Beauty of IT Led to a New Love and a Fascinating Career
GE Reports Africa blog profiles Beauty Mtshweni, a Project Manager, Operations & Infrastructure for GE Transportation IT in South Africa. Beauty gave up a full-time job to join a government education programme in the information technology (IT) field which led to a career at GE where she has worked on large projects such as IT network infrastructure implementation on new sites in South Africa and Mozambique. If there's one thing Beauty doesn't appreciate, it's the sexism that she encounters on occasion. "Sometimes," Beauty says, "there's an automatic assumption that because I'm a woman, I can't do certain aspects of my job. Therefore, I need to work harder and raise my voice higher to be heard." Read More. More about GE in Africa in this BRIEFING.
Photo: GE
Beauty Mtshweni, Project Manager, Operations & Infrastructure for GE Transportation IT in South Africa
InFocus
-
A Day in the life of Nnenna Anthonia Olorunfemi, Lead Contract Performance Manager at GE Power and Water at the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas plant (NLNG). Nnenna said that working ... Read more »
-
A Day in the life of Catherine Mutonyi, the Commercial Operational Leader for SSA based in the Transportation division of GE Kenya. Catherine moved back to Kenya and started at GE ... Read more »
-
GE is offering young graduates an opportunity to gain hands-on experience and valuable skills training with a 12-week internship programme, run in partnership with the African ... Read more »
-
GE's Accelerated Leadership Programme (XLP) was designed to build global executive leaders - it is one of many GE training programmes "developed to ensure employees Read more »
-
The lack of diversity in the fantasy world of comics helps to explain why so many fans were excited by the announcement of Riri Williams as a New Iron Man and successor to the ... Read more »
More From: GE Africa
- South Africa: Inside this South African Smelter, Software is Going Platinum
- Egypt: First-Ever GE Turnkey Solar Plant Coming to Egypt
- Egypt: Keeping Electricity Flowing in Egypt Through Financing and Technology
- Egypt: Securing Egypt's Energy Future from Deep Under the Sea
- Angola: Back on the Rails: How Machinists in Pennsylvania are Helping Drive Angola's Economy
- Ghana: GE to Supply Power Generation Technology for Ghana's 400 MW Bridge Power Project
- Ghana: Ghana Gets a Much-Needed Power Project Off the Ground
- Nigeria: "When You Train a Woman, You Train a Generation"
- Angola: Plane Power: How Software and Jet Engine Tech is Helping Angola Leapfrog into the Digital Age
- Angola: GE Announces Order with AE Energia to Bring Fast, Digital Power to Angola
- Angola: Through Various Development Initiatives, GE is Having a Positive Impact on Angolans' Lives
- Algeria: How One Algerian Gas Turbine Turned into our Largest Services Contract in GE Power's History
- Africa: GE Announces Clarke Energy as a Jenbacher Gas Engines Distributor for an Additional Six Countries in Africa
- Algeria: Historic $3 billion Deal Sees GE and Sonelgaz Strengthen Local Digital Industrial Capabilities to Boost Algeria's Power Sector
- Algeria: A New $3 Billion Deal will Help Algeria Take its Power to the Next Level
- Mozambique: "My Father Told Me that this was not a Field for Women"
