Nonkululeko A. Kubheka

Administrative Assistant | Customer Escalations Coordinator | Professional Writer

South Africa

I am an experienced professional writer, administrative assistant, and researcher, with proven experience working within a customer-orientated, academic, and start-up environment.

My skills include creative writing, ghostwriting, educational support, efficient chat, platform and email communication, computer literacy, customer support, analytical and critical thinking, and using virtual office tools such as Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Slack, Asana, Zoom, HelpScout, Shopify, BambooHR, and Calendly.

I have completed my BA Honours, with a specialization in African Politics, along with a BA in Political Leadership and Citizenship for my undergraduate studies. These have both helped me enhance my research skills, time management to meet deadlines, and my dedication to conciseness when completing tasks.

I've spent the past three years working remotely, and this has helped sharpen my people skills, timely responsiveness, and showing compassion. The time I spent working in one-on-one contact environments assisted with maintaining cohesion with co-workers, while also being able to help out wherever I saw the need to.

Portfolio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e77CJdNvmUI
05/20/2022
The coloniality of being and the indigenous African knowledge of burials and ukuzila

The coloniality of being and the indigenous African knowledge of burials and ukuzila: Suppressed grief during Covid-19 is a research presentation that focuses on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on African burial processes and how the mourning period has been altered. The emphasis of the presentation is on the decoloniality of the being, knowledge, and power.

YouTube
03/28/2021
Trauma and Torture Rehabilitation

My presentation is at 1:22:18. Held from October 2020 to March 2021, this webinar series aimed to gather voices of practitioners across Africa to reflect on their experiences of working with violence and conflict. The webinar series highlighted the complexity of trauma work being done in Africa, as it unpacked layers of trauma reflected in the history of Africa as well as the present. It further explored rehabilitation and intervention strategies that have been utilized to address the...

Iconoclastic Margins
08/15/2016
Will free education mean freedom?

Freedom has become but a dream that is only yet to manifest in our realities. What determines our freedom besides the Constitution or even the Freedom Charter? Do those two documents even have any serious value in our current society? Or did the idea of freedom die along with all the promises that were made...

Baby Steps
03/05/2019
Time Out

See, the thing about starting something new is that you mentally know what should come of it, how it should be working out for you and everything, but what could possibly go wrong is never quite anticipated. One can easily go from things working in their favour, to the universe seemingly turning it's back against...