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ESTATE NEWS

GET TO KNOW OUR NEW RESIDENT

LIAISON OFFICER, YOLANDA BASSON

What’s your current position? - Dale Carnegie Training – Marketing
Resident Liaison Officer Management
- The Anthony Morris Group – Executive
Please give us a brief overview of Sales Development
what your work entails. - Academy of Learning – Executive Secretary
- Communications (on our various / Personal Assistant
platforms).
- Stakeholder relations (internal and Describe yourself in three words.
external). Determined, passionate and loyal.
- Liaising with our residents regarding
enquiries, complaints and compliments. Are you married? Do you have
- Responsible for the clearance figures children?
process, which includes (building Widowed with two beautiful girls.
control/compliance/finance).
- Responsible for the AGM, AAC and CCM What are your hobbies or interests?
Committee meetings. Interior decorating, landscaping and reading.

Please give a short summary of What do you enjoy most about your job What are your future plans?
your qualification/s and past work at Silver Lakes? To start up a foundation for our youth, as
experience. Interacting with the various stakeholders. they are the future of our country.
- My career kicked off in the media
industry as a Senior Media Liaison for Where did you grow up? If you could change one thing in the
Rapport and City Press. I’ve successfully Vaal Triangle. world to make it better, what would
started up the Special Projects Division it be?
with my editor Kathy Whitehead and Did you have any mentors or people Be an example for my fellow colleagues,
I was responsible for the government who influenced you? Tell us about family, friends, and citizens and to be able
portfolio (national and provincial). them. to contribute to creating a better world
Thereafter, I joined Exxaro Resources Dr Nombasa Tsengwa, current CEO of Exxaro with peace and harmony.
Limited and had been the Stakeholder Resources Ltd and Mr Sipho Nkosi Chairman
Practitioner for one of the BU’s and of Sasol, a Board Member of Sanlam and What is your motto in life?
thereafter joined Head Office where I’ve currently appointed in the Presidency’s Always strive to be a better version of
worked with Exco on various projects Office as special adviser for improving new myself.
(national and international). potential investments into South Africa
- Studied at the University of Pretoria – have been my key mentors. They trained Contact details
Project Management me to remain humble, believe in myself 012 809 0142 / info@silverlakes.co.za
- Exxaro Training and Coaching Division – and through determination, I can achieve
Project Server 2010 anything in life. Thanks for the introduction, Yolanda!

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