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 Personal details:
Name: Ramadan Ahmed Breima
Nationality: Sudanese.
Date of Birth: 01/01/1966.
Marital Status: Married.
Contact Details:
- Email: breima_ramadan@hotmail.com
- Phone: +27823197580
- Fax: +27865102358
- Skype: breima3

 Professional details
- Place of residence: South Africa
- Language pair/ pairs: English-Arabic –English, English-Zulu-English, English-French-English.
- Number of years of experience: 15 Years
- Specialization: general, business & finance, legal, education, media, politics, humanities.
- Average rate per source word in USD: 0.10 – 0.15.
- Interpretation rates: USD100 per hour.
- Proofreading rate: USD0.03 pre source word.
- Number of words translated per day: 4000
- Preferred mode of payment: Moneybookers, Bank transfer, Money gram, Western Union.
- Availability to work during weekends: available

 Activities:
- Conference interpretation.
- Proof reading & Editing.
- Text translation.
- Writing.

 Educational Background:
- Honours Degree in translation, University of Kwazulu Natal (South Africa). 2005.
- BA in English language and literature from Omdurman Islamic University
(Sudan). 1994
- A number of short courses and workshops on translation.
- A 6-month Non-degree course on translation (University of Natal). 2003


 Experience:
- Teacher of Translation & general English, Sudan National Institute for Languages. 1996
- Editor of a number of English-speaking periodicals.
- Contributor in the daily New Horizon. (Sudan).
- Directed Media and Translation Dept. MDI – Sudan.
- Worked with NGOs in Madagascar, Tanzania, and South Africa. 1998-2009
- Regular presenter of a weekly program entitled “Dialogue of Civilizations” on Radio Omdurman (Sudan).
- Presented programs on different community radios (South Africa).
- Work experience: 15 years.

 Presently:
- Working as freelancer.
- Member of the South Africa Translators Institute (SATI)
- Full member of Proz.com
- Member of a number of International translation institutions

 Worked for:
- Al-Jazeera Centre for Studies: +9744930183/181 elzeins@aljazeera.net (Qatar)
- Land Mine Monitor: +1(613) 2413777, jakei@minesactioncanada.org (Canada)
- Language Connect: +44 8450945660 info@languageconnerct.net (Britain)
- ITC Traductions : itctraductions@itcfrance.com (France)
- Agostini & Associates: (+39 02342793, amministrazione@agostiniassociati.com (Italy)
- Language Inc. +27 218872663 yolande@language-inc.org (South Africa)


Reference
• Prof. Van de Berg: University of Kwazulu Natal
Email: VdBerg@ukzn.ac.za
• Dr. A. Jadwat: University of Kwazulu Natal
Email: ajadwat@ukzn.ac.za
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   Pricing / Other services

Average rate per source word in USD: 0.10 – 0.15.
- Interpretation rates: USD100 per hour.
- Proofreading rate: USD0.03 pre source word.
- Number of words translated per day: 4000
- Preferred mode of payment: Moneybookers, Bank