AUGUSTINE WAKO KAFUKO
FREELANCE LANGUAGE SERVICES PROVIDER
Contact
Address: 4 Lily Street, Kempton Park Johannesburg
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/augustine-kafuko
Personal Statement
A dedicated language professional with several years of experience working in various professional, freelance
as well as customer focused roles. I have extensive travel experience both in Africa and Europe and I also pride
myself in providing customer service excellence, accuracy and attention to detail in my work. I am also
passionate about facilitating productive cross-cultural relationships through language teaching and facilitation. I
also hold a Master’s Degree in Language Practice as well as various other language qualifications at
undergraduate level and continue to develop myself professionally so as to provide better service to my clients.
Skills
Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting
(Language pairs- French to English, English to
French)
Language translation (French-English, EnglishFrench, Spanish to English)
Proofreading
Post editing machine translation
French and English language teaching
Computer Aided Translation
Work History
FREELANCE WORK EXPERIENCE
Current Freelance Assignments 2021
Company name: Rare Languages
Post editing of French-Canadian to English transcriptions for the Neevo App where the task is to
compare transcriptions of audio snippets to machine generated transcriptions and make corrections
where a transcription is inaccurate or doesn’t follow transcription guidelines.
Company name: Synergium PM’s
French to English post editing Machine Translation for Twitter.
Recent international interpreting events (Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting
French/English):
Fiscal Openness Accelerator Project –IBP/GIFT 2nd-3rd March 2020, Johannesburg South Africa
Feminist Leadership Training 27th-29th November 2019, Johannesburg South Africa
The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality Regional Consultation 25th-26th November
2019, Johannesburg South Africa,
3rd ieDEA All Africa Meeting 31st October 2019, Johannesburg South Africa
2001 – Current
Freelance Language Translator and Interpreter for various individuals and organisations.
January 2005- July 2005
English language teacher: Mthatha Junior School, Mthatha.
Teaching English as a foreign language to grade 9 and 8 learners
Professional Work History
Logistics Manager
Unifreight Logistics, Johannesburg
December 2018 – November 2019
Facilitating exports on behalf of Unifreight Group Of Companies to the rest of Africa from South
Africa
Logistics Manager
BCX, Johannesburg
January 2015-February 2018
Managing the entire end to end logistics and supply chain process from order to delivery of fuel
pumps and related stock ensuring stock is delivered on time, in full, at the right price and in the right
quality to the client as per quotes received from the key accounts and sales team.
Export Order Co-ordinator (French and Spanish Language specialist)
Royal Dutch Shell, Cape Town
November 2013- December 2014
Provided support to the export teams in Europe and the Americas (North and South
America) in ensuring bulk shipments of crude oil are dispatched and delivered on time to our
distribution partners.
Supply Chain Support (French Language Specialist)
Royal Dutch Shell, Cape Town
September 2012- November 2013
Provided specialist back office support for French Canadian Distributor Operations whilst applying
continuous improvement strategies to reduce internal and external inefficiencies thereby improving
the bottom line, customer satisfaction and meeting agreed upon KPI’S.
French Chat Moderator
Buongiorno, Cape Town
September 2008-March 2010
Responsibilities included quality assessment and monitoring of all forms of UGC (User
Generated Content) that are published on the chat community such as discussion areas, forums, chat
rooms, picture albums and comment areas.
Senior Conference Sales Executive- (French, Spanish and English Language Specialist)
Marcus Evans, Cape Town
Sept 2007- March 2008
Contacted, by telephone, key decision-makers around the world and past delegates to ensure
they are aware of future conferences in Supply Chain and Logistics Management organized by
Marcus Evans whilst selling the benefits of attending and securing registrations and alternative
solutions where necessary.
Education & Training
Applied Logistics and Supply Chain Management
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
July 2016– December 2016
My majors for this course were Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Applied Research.
Master of Arts Language Practice
University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
July 2005 – July 2007
My majors for this course were Linguistics, French and Conference Interpreting.
Practical Certificate in Translation
Alliance Française, Paris, France
July 2004 – August 2004
My major for this course was language translation, French and English Pairs.
Advanced French Language Certificate
Cavillam, Vichy, France
1st December 2002 – 29th December 2002
My major for this course was Advanced French.
Bachelor of Social Sciences
Makerere University, Kampala Uganda
October 1998 – December 2001
My majors for this course were Political Science and French
High School Leaving Certificate
Mwiri College, Kampala Uganda
January 1992 – December 1998
My majors for this course were History, Economics, Geography and French.
Interests
In my spare time, I enjoy watching sports as well as reading economic and business literature.
