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Dr Moleseng Moshobane
Scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute
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MOSHOBANE Claude Moleseng is from Mamaila village in Limpopo Province, near Tzaneen. Claude's educational pilgrimage and intellectual initiation commenced at Sebelaolo Primary . Guided by a philosophy that ’an ink of a scholar is mightier than a sword of a warrior’ (Victor Hugo), Claude attained his junior degree at the University of Limpopo, and his B.Sc. Honours in Limnology. That coming to fall, Claude enrolled at the University of Pretoria as a Masters in Marine Biology which he completed successfully in 2014, completing his PhD at Sefako Makgato Health Sciences University. In recognition of the outstanding work he did with the remote communities in Limpopo as a science promoter he was awarded the Royal Commonwealth Society Associate Fellowship. Most recently he received the best Science Radio Scriptwriter (First Prize) SAASTA Young Science Communicators in the category of radio scripts.
As a diligent student, Claude achieved what the majority of his peers considered being a dream thus defying pre-conceived notions and conventions associated with socially constructed stereotypes regarding rural impediments and predicaments. He represented SADC on international student conference on the environment in China and later to United States of America for similar reasons in 2012, early 2013 was mandated to UK, London as the youth minister of international development for the Y8+ Summit, Delegate and Nominee for the Commonwealth Youth Council, a side event to Commonwealth Heads of states meeting, Sri Lanka, 2013. He describes himself as being open minded, articulate, and dedicated to work at hand. as