Nangamso Mtsatse

Nangamso is currently the CEO of Funda Wande and an experienced education leader. Before being appointed as CEO, her previous portfolios included being Funda Wande’s Versioning and Relationships lead and more recently Head of Literacy. Nangamso is also completing her PhD in Education Policy at Stellenbosch University and an affiliated researcher at the Research on Socioeconomic Policy (RESEP) group. She has published her research in a number of accredited journals. In January 2019 she was also selected by the International Literacy Association (ILA) as one of the Top 30 Under 30 researchers around the world. Nangamso has contributed to a number of important initiatives in the South Africa literacy sphere. She is a board member of Wordworks as well as a Section 11 committee member of South African Human Right Commission’s “Right to Read and Write” and subcommittee chair of African Languages in the committee. Nangamso is also a co-author of the influential “Benchmarking early grade reading skills in Nguni languages” report.