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event had 64 attendees, whereby 63 were YP’s with With July being part of the CESA Job Shadow
1 senior engineer. The event was a follow up from Initiative and the 29th July to 2nd August being
last presentation, Mr. Moloisane from ECSA was the National Science Week, on the 30th of July 2013,
guest speaker for the day. He encouraged YP’s to get YPF PE branch took 25 grade 12 mathematics
involved in organisations such as the YPF and also and science learners from Douglas High school in
participate in ECSA committees. Motherwell to a construction site at Brickfields, just
outside Motherwell in Port Elizabeth.
The YPF NC Chairperson also presented a CESA
YPF Presentation which was aimed at informing The Limpopo YPF through Nyeleti Consulting
potential YP’s and encouraging them to join the YPF. selected Capricorn High School to benefit and
participate in the CESA YPF Job Shadow Initiative
Worley Parsons and Aurecon were involved in the Job
for 2013, “A Day in the Life of a Consulting Engineer”.
Shadow Initiative during July. Learners from various
The learners were selected by the school and ranged
schools were exposed to the consulting engineering
from grade 8 to grade 12 learners. The learners were
world and undertook various engineering activities.
entertained by Nyeleti Consulting at Nyeleti offices
situated in Polokwane and were given practical
The Northern Cape YPF visited the Technical High
examples, an engineering based task and a site
School in Kimberley. Vincent Seane and Mahlomola
visit to a current road construction project based in
Letele (from Worley Parsons RSA and Aurecon
Mokotopong, approximately 26km from Polokwane.
respectively) conducted a presentation to encourage
learners to undertake engineering as a career.
The period under review has been successful for
The learners were informed of the various careers
the YPF. We have met our objectives and we have
that exist within CESA firms and the necessity of
exposed hundreds of young learners to careers in
engineers for the country’s development.
Engineering and we will continue to ensure that more
students are exposed to this wonderful career.
Youth in Construction Week at Sci-Bono (18-22
February): Several YPs from Gauteng South
The business plan is currently being reviewed, and
volunteered to man the CESA stand as well as make
will be wrapped up at the CESA Conference in Cape
short 45 minute presentations to learners (and FET
Town in November.
college students) on various aspects of their jobs and
engineering at large.
Gauteng South handed over stationery and
computers to Witkoppen Primary School in Fourways Godfrey Ramalisa
on the 21 February. The YPF partnered with UWP Manager: Client Liaison
Consulting to hand over stationery collected during
the course of 2012 as well as computers, printers and Likhaya Nkonki:
fax machines donated by UWP as part of their CSI Carifro Consulting Engineers
drive.
CESA YPF National Chairperson
Gauteng South held a ‘Meet and Greet’ Function at
Royal HaskoningDHV on the 7th March – the first
social gathering of YPs for 2013.

Gauteng North/South jointly hosted the Presidential
Visit. The event was attended by a large contingent
CESA Annual Review 2012 / 2013 The Port Elizabeth YPF branch thanked all the office
of YP’s and Antoinette Mmekwa from Gauteng South
presented on the activities of the Gauteng South
branch at the event.

managers who encouraged their YP’s to get involved
in the YPF and also participate in the YPF events.
The PE YPF hosted a successful Financial Planning
for Engineers workshop that took place on the 24th
of June 2013 at Aurecon Offices in PE. The workshop

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