The Chief Executive and Staff of Spontaneous Management Consulting wish to welcome Ndumiso Erasmus Martins to the position of Human Resources Manager deployed to manage the HR affairs of Stuttbrick (our client).
Ndumiso is a simple person with strong rural and semi-urban background coupled with belief in the principles of fairness, firmness and humility. He married Sindiswa thirty six (36) years ago and together have four children. He is somewhat introverted and respects his space although not a reclusive person as he does open when comfortable with the environment. He enjoys music particularly jazz and gospel. He is a Christian. His father died when he was nine (9) years old and he was brought up by his mother who was a domestic worker at the time. Her influence on him had a tremendous impact on his later outlook and this is evidenced in his chosen career of contributing the little he could to the lives of the down trodden whose lives he touched in his career.
He started his education in the rural areas of the erstwhile Transkei (Cofimvaba) where he learned cultural chores of herding cattle and involvement in stick fighting.
He then proceeded to King William’s Town where he obtained his Junior Certificate. Staying in Ginsberg Township opened his eyes to urban life and some of the things he learnt in that community are still with him to this day.
He then proceeded to Lovedale High School in Alice where he completed his matriculation. In 1970 he enrolled at University of Fort Hare for B. Admin degree which he duly completed in 1972.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Before going to University of Fort Hare, after matric he was employed by the Department of Education as an inspector’s clerk based at Circuit office in Lady Frere for nine (9) months. The treatment and lack of job satisfaction motivated him to aspire to improve his educational qualifications. He therefore resigned and proceeded to University with no finances whatsoever but inexplicable through the grace of God he survived the first six (6) months with to help from his domestic mother until he secured a bursary in the second semester.
| Organisation | Position | Brief background |
| Former Ciskei Government | Personnel Clerk | After tertiary education, he was employed by the Ciskeian Government in their staff section as a clerk. He was then deployed to Sada, Whittlesea which was a Handicraft centre established by the Government for disabled people who had been through the Groups Areas Act evicted and resettled in barren reserves of South Africa. |
| Personnel and Industrial Relations | IR Officer | While working as an Industrial Relations Officer at Pepkor, he quickly established working relationship with Transkei Development Corporation and the National Productivity Institute. A training centre was an urgent need. He then, with the cooperation of top Management at Pepkor opened and ran training programmes in induction supervision and skills training. |
| UNITRA and TRTC | Senior Personnel Officer | He left Pep Textiles to join UNITRA a Senior Personnel Officer and left to join T.R.T.C as a Group Manpower Manager. These were small periods as he again could not get job satisfaction despite good remuneration and accompanying perks from both institutions. |
| Group Manpower manager | ||
| PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION | Director Work Study | He joined the Government Services as Director Work study in Public Service Commission, a position he had until his premature retirement in 1995 having served for nine (9) years. |
| Marley Flooring | Senior Personnel and IR Officer | He joined Marley Flooring PTY Ltd in Eat London. At the time the company was fraught with labour unrests. The militancy in the strikes badly affected relations on the floor and sewed division among Black employees on the one hand and White supervisors on the other. This racially polarised the factory.
Immense networking was necessary to integrate these two factions. This meant that he had to be constantly on the shop floor facilitating dialogue informally with the work force, supervisors, foreman, production and employee representative – this without affecting production. Through meetings on the site between employee representative the officials from the union office and the Bargaining Council trust was developed albeit after a long time. However when all the parties became aware of their mistakes undertakings to rectify where implemented, channels of communication, trust was re-established, transparency became the norm and strikes became a thing of the past. This is his story, his career, his contribution. |
WELCOME NOZULU, MPAFANE, THUKELA