Mamonene Thema
My experience and achievements in the field of Agriculture include mentoring students (2017) and researching in the field of Animal reproduction and physiology (2020-current); facilitating the high school learners who visit Agricultural Research Council, Germplasm Conservation and Reproduction Biotechnologies site (2020-current); assisting, collaborating, and engaging with different dairy and beef cattle farmers in South Africa for Assisted reproductive technologies project (2020- current); engaged with farmers in Limpopo and Gauteng for Agricultural Research Council (Germplasm) gene banking project, and presenting the abstracts in different Agricultural related symposiums and conferences (2021-current). I have submitted and published articles, abstracts and book chapters as a first and second author. During my experiential learning year, I worked at piggery (farrowing, weaner, and boar house) and feed mill; For my master’s research, I trained the boars, collected the semen, evaluated the semen for fertilizing abilities, cryopreserved, liquid preserved the boar semen and thawed the semen, as well as conserving the indigenous boar semen for future use. I assisted my fellow students with in vitro fertilization, Embryo production, AI and pregnancy diagnosis. During my high school years, I offered extra lessons in Agricultural science and mathematics subjects; I also mentored undergraduate students, during my diploma in Animal Science at the Tshwane University of Technology.