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Catherine Lückhoff

Catherine Lückhoff is orchestrating a quiet revolution in the South African PR industry. Taking tried and tested methods, adding new ways of reaching an audience, and unconventional concepts, Catherine creates exceptional strategies to meet defined business communication and publicity requirements.
Catherine’s entrepreneurial spirit saw her founding MANGO-OMC soon after graduating. Using print, broadcast media, social media, mobile and the web, Catherine fashions together exactly the right ingredients for effective brand activation and communication strategies.
Her business savvy and ability to get under the skin of a company is matched by her skill at pulling together a best-of-breed tactical team and collaboration partners to successfully implement a cutting edge communications plan.
MANGO-OMC was founded in 2004, and in 2006 Nicole Capper joined Catherine as her business partner. The boutique communications agency offers companies truly integrated public relations, media relations, branding and communications services. The team’s depth of experience and industry relations means it can harness the correct media, in the right way, for maximum impact.
MANGO-OMC has, amongst others, worked with Rocking the Daisies Music Festival and Redbull RADAR, for whom it ran one of South Africa’s largest integrated outreach campaigns; The Foschini Group CSI; Cape Town Routes Unlimited; getclosure!; Woolworths Financial Services; and Shake Interactive.

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Nicole Capper

Nicole Capper believes in the utilization of communications to affect and effect change.. Her razor-sharp strategic mind allows her to get to the heart of an issue quickly and succinctly; while her innate understanding of the traditional and new media landscape has resulted in a strong network of long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships.

She cut her teeth in branding and marketing, and successfully navigated the early days of complementary healthcare communications in South Africa. Not afraid to get her hands dirty, Nicole has the ability to shift seamlessly from high level strategic thinking, to grass-roots PR implementation, and back again.

Sustainability and collaboration are what make her tick. Attention to detail and excellent organizational abilities are how she gets things done. Nicole has successfully conceptualised and forged some of the most creative third party joint marketing alliances for MANGO-OMC’s clients.

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Tamryn Waters

Tamryn joined MANGO-OMC in March 2009 as an Account Manager. She graduated cum laude in Public Relations Management at The Cape Peninsula University of Technology and has since been working in the UK with an array of clients from multi-national fashion houses and airlines to energy companies.

As a graduate Tamryn assisted on accounts such as Nokia, Gulf Air and Noddy at Four Communications Ltd and Redhouse Lane Communications Ltd in London and went onto a management position at Blue Ink Agency Ltd specialising in Brand Management, Online Marketing and PR. She is keen traveller who has lived and worked in New York, Thailand and the United Kingdom. With four years international experience and a keen eye for detail, Tamryn can conceptualise and implement a successful campaign from start to end. 

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Vanessa Clark

Vanessa joined the MANGO -OMC team in May 2008. A journalist by training, she has over 10 years experience in a variety of marketing roles spanning PR, communications, branding, social media and sales support. She loves telling the story of interesting companies, and because she has spent the bulk of her career in the tech industry, she is adept at translating techno-geek speak into something interesting and accessible. She has worked in Cape Town and London, dealing with businesses as far afield as Mumbai, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo and San Francisco, building brands in new territories.

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Emma Donovan

Emma joined the MANGO-OMC team in May 2009, bringing her writing and editing skills to the party. She is responsible for online and offline content generation on a number of the MANGO-OMC accounts.

Emma graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Media and Politics and then spent 18 months working and traveling in Europe, Asia and Australia. She returned to Cape Town in 2008 to take up the position of Content Manager for getclosure.co.za where she developed and refined her writing and editing skills and joined the world of online media.

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Chrizanda Van Wyk

Chrizanda joined the MANGO-OMC team in April 2009 to fulfil her third year internship programme.  A student of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Chrizanda aims to complete her BTech in PR part-time in 2010.

With a passion for working with people and an interest in human diversity, Chrizanda has also extensively travelled in both the USA and Europe and finds the world of communications “inspiring and motivating”. 

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Nicki de Beer

Nicki joined the MANGO-OMC team in April 2010 to fulfil her 3rd year internship programme. A student of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Nicki aims to complete her BTech in PR part time and continue working thereby combining theory and practice.  

Nicki finds the world of communication fascinating and would love to travel and learn the various communication methods used worldwide.

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Stefanie Elliott

Stefanie joined MANGO-OMC as an Account Manager in June 2010. Stefanie has a B-Tech in Public Relations and is currently completing her MTech in PR Management at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She thrives on teamwork and believes communications is essential for any organisation in fostering excellent relationships with all its stakeholders. Learning to understand and communicate with each one and planning campaigns to suit them is what she loves about PR. Previously,
Stefanie has worked on accounts such as ADT Security, Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust and the Groote Schuur Community Improvement District.

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Lebogang Mawelela

Lebogang joined MANGO-OMC in May 2010 as an Account Assistant.  With a diploma in public relations and communication from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), she completed an internship at the University’s Division of Institutional Advancement for Corporate Communication.

Highlights of her career include participation in cultural diversity forums, focusing on knowledge and information exchange and being selected as one of the first Nedbank brand ambassadors.

Lebogang intends to continue her studies in communication science and to expand on her marketing and branding experience.

Tenacious and creative, Lebogang believes PR and communication is “an important communication platform to effect positive behavioural change in society.”

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