Dr Bertha Mudamburi was born in Zimbabwe. She obtained a Diploma in Agriculture in 1985 at Chibero College in Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe National Further Education Teachers Certificate at Kwe Kwe Tech College, Zimbabwe in 1987, and a BSc (Honours) in Agricultural Technology and Management, from Silsoe in UK in 1993. In 2001 an MSc in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, subsequently a Certificate in Farm Machinery Management at JKUAT in 2002 and finally a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from UNAM in 2017. Her thesis is “ A comparison of the performance of Namibia-specific conservation and conventional tillage technologies as used for pearl millet production in Northern Namibia”