MDDA WELCOMES A NEW MDDA BOARD MEMBER,
ROLAND WILLIAMS AND THANK MS NADIA BULBULIA AND MS NOTHANDO MIGOGO FOR THEIR
CONTRIBUTION
By Brian kajengo
The President of the Republic, his Excellency Jacob Zuma
acting in terms of Section 4 (1) (b) read with Section 8 (2) of the MDDA Act
appointed Mr Roland Aloysius Williams to the MDDA Board
from Jan 2014 until December 2016.
The President has also thanked Ms Nadia Bulbulia and Ms
Nothando Migogo whose terms of office expired in December 2013, for their
invaluable contribution and dedication in promoting an environment for media
development and diversity in SA.
Mr Roland Williams is a community activist who hails from Nelson Mandela
Bay in the Eastern
Cape, where he currently serves as the Head of Communications of
the Nelson Mandela Bay
Metropolitan Municipality.
With roots deeply entrenched in community and
developmental structures, being exposed and involved in this environment since
the tender age of 14. Mr Williams is a fiercely loyal and passionate developmental
activist.
As a regular contributor to national, local
and community media, the press sometimes refers to him as an incomparable,
indefatigable, uncompromising "spin doctor" who is always quick to
defend and propagate developmental decisions, programmes and policies of the
public sector.
Always well-groomed
and often seen (and covered in the local media) with his wife in social
circles, he is a "think-tank" who is consistently called upon to
develop policies, strategies and programmes for media and governance issues as
well as to manage and coordinate developmental work in Nelson Mandela Bay,
especially in the media and communications arena.
Mr Williams brings a
wealth of knowledge in a diverse range of subjects to the MDDA Board, as a
highly qualified BA Social Sciences graduate from the Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan University,
and is currently reading for a Masters in Conflict Management and International
Relations.
A highly skilled individual with more than 25
years’ experience in management, he has made contributions to inter-alia the
Local Government Transitional Act, the LGCS (Local Government Communications
Strategy), the MDDA Act and various other public sector and media policy papers
and long-term plans.
He is currently also
the editor of community publications. He serves on the COGTA/SALGA/GCIS National
Communications Task Team and is the Regional Convenor of the Progressive
Professionals Forum (PPF).
The MDDA welcomes Mr Williams, commit to working with and
supporting him, look forward to his leadership and guidance, and wish him all
the best in the quest to pursue the mandate enshrined in the MDDA Act.
His diverse expertise and experience will strengthen and
enhance the work of the MDDA. Mr Williams is filling a vacancy as a result of
the departure of Ms Nadia Bulbulia who served and completed her full three year
term.
Ms Nothando Migogo appointed with effect from the 23rd
January 2013 for the unexpired term of office of a resultant vacancy which
ended on the 31st December 2013.
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