UCOMS is a tenant at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria and specialises in centrally managed systems, for the delivery of computing power and computing and communications services. The company also provides these services to the Oprah Winfrey School in Natal and the NEPAD e-schools in Rwanda, Mauritius and other African countries. Mr Makhari is a teacher by profession and became an entrepreneur in his own right, specialising in Human Resources management and in that capacity served with Metro Cash & Carry, British Petroleum and became the Human Resources Director of Nedbank. He is also a shareholder and Director in Plato South Africa (Pty) Ltd. Mr Makhari is responsible for the UCOMS involvement with the Western Cape Khanya Schools Project. His decision to join UCOMS was motivated by the fact that UCOMS has over the past two years been involved in Africa with ICT Industry leader CISCO and distance learning specialists PLATO in exactly his field of expertise. It is his intention to greatly expand the knowledge transfer processes of his new Company and to assist them in the rollout of their Commercial Community Centres Programme. Contact Details: Gerda Mouton UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES (Pty) Limited (Sub-Sahara Africa) Tel: +27 12 346 1000 / +27 21 439 6970 Mobile: +27 83 383 0560 Fax: +27 86 502 6487gerda@ucoms.co.za www.ucoms.co.za