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African AI framework tackles career guidance gap for disadvantaged students | SA News

 

Dr Nosipho Mavuso at her Nelson Mandela University graduation celebrations in December 2025

Dr Nosipho Mavuso conducted this research first-hand at Walter Sisulu University in Buffalo City, where she lectures in IT.

Her focus group surveys on 180 undergraduate IT students revealed that generic online career tools failed them because they ignored South African realities: affordability, regional inequality and the digital divide.

“These tools are there but they are not designed for our context,” says Dr Mavuso. “The gap is there, and quite visible.”

Her doctoral research, supervised by Mandela University’s Distinguished Professor Darelle van Greunen and co-supervised by…

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