Ms Sharon Bacon, Alumnus of the month
Sharon has completed her internship with the eThekwini Municipality in 2010 and says that it was an awesome experience, working with people from all works of life, attending celebrative functions and interacting with high ranking officials, from other international countries as well as from locally. She had the privilege of working closely with and grabbing the lime light with the City of Durban’s former mayor, Obed Mlaba, the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and the President of South Africa, Mr Jacob Zuma to name a few.
Ms Bacon works for the South African Revenue Services (SARS) as a Quality Assessor at the National Contact Centre. She never lets her disability hinder her success in life as she is involved in many other activities beside her work.
Being a public relations officer at heart she practices it for her social group, the Phoenix Light Group which is based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal as she is in charge of the community newsletter. It doesn’t end there! She also writes articles for the Sars monthly newsletter and her readers are taken aback by the content and quality of her articles.
Ms Bacon concedes though that living with a disability in any form is a challenge and conducting her studies through the University was not an easy task. “Blind people are not necessarily provided with study material that is user friendly and I have written exams twice already and found that we had to record the exams.”
She attributes her success to God and her loving and supportive family who have always encouraged her in the activities she has undertaken.
She believes that through her writing and maxim of living positively and taking the bull by the horns, she will work for the South African Parliament one day as she is used to interacting with people who work for government. “I would like to see myself as part of the communications team in less than five years,” she says.
