Busi Maqubela joined the MTN sciencentre at the very beginning in 2000 as a callow University of the Western Cape graduate in biochemistry and microbiology, having survived boarding schools in Bloemfontein in the Free State and Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, courtesy of a well-connected relative.
She's since grown into an incredibly efficient floors and programmes manager of the MTN Sciencentre, and is busy putting the next generation of family members through high school in her turn.
But can she cope with an interview? Efforts to tape her for YouTube dissolved in laughter. So we're trying again. Busi will appear live on the English-language SAfm radio station, on the current affairs programm Saturday PM, which airs between 8 and 9 pm, to talk about the first day of national science week. Listen out for her at about 8:20 pm, on May 10.
She went to boarding school in Bloemfontein in the Free State and Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, but says it was nothing like the stories in Johan van der Ruit's Michaelhouse novel Spud. The MTN Sciencentre staff - including education manager Rhyme Setshedi, Fikiswa Majola, Detlef Basel, Anwar Goolam and Ryan Bruton - recently returned from Grahamstown after putting on a slew of exhibitions and workshops and shows at SciFest 2008.
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