Sihle Pokwana

Biography:

Ms Sihle Pokwana studied Bachelor of Science in Agriculture majored in Crop Science and Horticultural Science at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and graduated in 2016, during the same year of graduation she took up Honours in Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Horticultural Science and graduated the Honours 2017. In 2017 while doing an internship at Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development under a unit of risk and disaster management she was at the same time pursuing Masters in Forest Management and the Environment at University of Pretoria in South Africa supervised by professor Paxie Chirwa and Philip Tshidzumba which she obtained in 2019. After graduating for Masters she went on to register PhD in Environmental science with Rhodes University which she is currently finalising under the supervision of professor Charlie Shackleton. Currently she works as an assistant director monitoring and evaluations at National Disaster Management Centre in South Africa.