2019 CBE Annual Report

College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2019 53 • students were invited to participate in the gauteng Provincial legislature hearing for money bills on 12 march 2019. (14) • students participated in the Ethembeni Children’s home community activity, on 21 september 2019. (15) • students participated in the Bertrams skills Centre community activity on sustainable urban farming on 26 october 2019. for this project, our students were involved in indoor or urban farming. the purpose of this community engagement was to teach our students about sustainable development and urban farming. (16). • six spmgp students participated in a student leadership outbound community service programme of humanitarian affairs asia in malaysia on 29 July to 10 august 2019. • student breakfast with the gpl speaker on 15 August 2019. student development And reseArch Footprint nkosingiphile mkhize, a master’s student, participated in the 2019 Association of southern African schools and departments of public Administration and management (assadPam) by presenting papers and attending the Emerging researcher workshop. (17) tinashe mukonavanhu, a doctoral student, participated in a symposium focusing on Pan- african leadership in Cape town. the africa month Public symposium, held in Cape town, was hosted by the african union (au) african peer review mechanism (Aprm) in collaboration with the university of Cape town (uCt) Convocation and the nelson mandela school of public governance (nms). the aPRm is an autonomous entity of the au, whose mandate is to promote and encourage conformity with regards to political, economic and corporate governance values, codes and standards, among African countries and the objectives in socio-economic development. Jerome patience, a doctoral student, participated in the international Association of schools and institutes of Administration (iAsiA) Conference in lisbon, portugal. mr patience presented his research article with the topic ‘Variables influencing Participatory Budgeting in the City of Ekurhuleni’. mr Phenyo Blom, an honours student, presented a paper, ‘the management of Public debt by the national treasury of south africa’ at the City of Johannesburg, organised by the directorate strategy and Relations of the City of Johannesburg. Design Elements Print Media Digital Me Visual style 2 Design Elements Print Media

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