In loving memory

Deceased – was born on February 4, 1944, in the Free State and died on Novem­ber 20 after a long illness.

Education – Her fam­ily moved from Free State to Brak­pan in the late 1940s where she completed her primary education.

She proceeded to Adams College in Amanz­im­toti, KwaZulu-Na­tal, where she matriculated.

She went to the Univer­sity of Zu­l­u­land for her un­der­grad­u­ate studies and honours.

She then enrolled for her master’s degree with the University of South Africa (Unisa) and grad­u­ated in the early 1970s.

In 1975, she went to York Univer­sity in Toronto, Canada, to do her sec­ond master’s and later her PhD in so­ci­ol­ogy, which was conferred in 1981.

Career – She moved to Los An­ge­les where she lectured at the Univer­sity of Cal­i­for­nia un­til 1985.

Upon her re­turn to South Africa, she as­sumed the role of se­nior re­searcher at the Hu­man Sciences Re­search Coun­cil (HSRC) – a po­si­tion she held un­til 1987 when she re­turned to Unisa, this time as a se­nior lec­turer in so­ci­ol­ogy.

In 1990, Moeno joined Eskom as one of the first black se­nior man­agers in strate­gic plan­ning. She re­ceived a fel­low­ship at Yale Univer­sity in New Haven, Con­necti­cut, USA, in 1991. She was also sec­onded to Wits Tech­nikon for fund-rais­ing.

Moeno was one of the se­nior ex­ec­u­tives at the In­de­pen­dent Elec­toral Com­mis­sion (IEC) of SA from 1993 un­til the landmark elec­tions in 1994.

In 1995, she moved to Vista Univer­sity (Univer­sity of Jo­han­nes­burg) in Soweto as the head of the so­ci­ol­ogy depart­ment un­til she re­tired in 2008.

She was the found­ing mem­ber of Trust for Ed­u­ca­tional Ad­vance­ment in SA (TEASA) in 1987, and later its chair­per­son un­til 2004.

Community – She also did a lot for the com­mu­nity, set­ting up aca­dem­i­cally-gifted chil­dren in Tsakane and other town­ships with schol­ar­ships. In the process, she helped to cre­ate busi­ness peo­ple, doc­tors, ac­coun­tants, lawyers and engi­neers.

Family – She is sur­vived by her son Di­neo, three grand­chil­dren (Neo, Molemo and Oratile), two sis­ters (Au­drey and Yvonne) cousins, nieces and neph­ews.

Funeral – De­cem­ber 1 at Angli­can Church in Tsakane, Brak­pan, from 7.30am. The procession will then move to Brak­pan Ceme­tery.