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Washiela Jantjies is a 27-year-old contract surveyor working for the construction firm, NMC, in Cape Town. She is from the coloured (mixed-race) community - a minority group that makes up less than 10% of South Africa's population. Despite her age, she is already quite senior in her company. "My career started when NMC recruited me from high school," she says. "My school was in a hardcore area where you find people attending with different problems, where kids get pregnant at 14, where a father abuses his daughter. "All you can think about is getting out of that hell-hole." Ms Jantjies is a beneficiary of affirmative action. Under a company scheme, she was given extra maths and physics lessons and put through university. NMC also employs 29-year-old Banyane Makwebu. She is a black South African - and the company's first... [read full story]
