HAPPY CHAPPY
As Facility Supervisor and Transport Coordinator Colin Kensley celebrates 33 years with UWC, his colleagues pay tribute to a friendly, spirited man By Thulani Mkosi | Photography: Skhu Nkomphela
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ased on the sterling work he has been doing for more than two decades, and the high esteem his colleagues and student-athletes hold him in, Colin Kensley is the glue that keeps UWC Sport Administration ticking, albeit in the background. Although he is employed as a facility supervisor, Kensley’s job
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has been much more. He is also involved in the maintenance of the sport fields and buildings around the University Sport precinct. Yet, he says, that’s not the only thing that makes him jump out of bed every day to go to work. “The students are my joy and seeing them playing their sports
and graduating makes me happy,” he says with a smile. Uncle Colin, as he’s affectionately called by students, joined UWC in June 1988 as a carpentry assistant before he qualified as a locksmith four years later. In September 2000, he was transferred to UWC Sport after a long process of having to be reinterviewed as
