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From the Desk of the CEO

efadi Makibinyane took over as the CEO corruptly natured; hence fairness and equality is
of CESA on the 1st July 2013. He is a a prerequisite requirement for the development of
Ldistinguished Professional armed with a an engineer.
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Chemical
Engineering, Masters of Business Leadership He cautions that any consulting engineering
and a Management Development Programme member firm caught participating in corrupt
Certificate in Project Management. He registered activities shall not only lose their membership of
professionally as a Chartered Engineer through CESA but their work and existence as a firm. CESA
the British Engineering Council in April 2001. will ensure that such a member gets blacklisted on
the National Treasury database
Lefadi’s vision is to make CESA and gets removed as a vendor for
a premium membership for Consulting Engineering Services
every practicing Consulting from the databases of both public
Engineering Firm in South Africa, and private sector clients.
small, medium and large, alike.
He will continue to educate It should therefore be the premise
the market to fully understand and commitment of CESA under
the product offering of the my leadership to inculcate in
Consulting Engineering service, members the proper and ethical
so that they can start utilising the conduct in discharging of their
specialisation of CESA member duties to our clients. This is the
firms more effectively, bearing in only way that we are going to
mind that consulting engineers succeed in promoting our work in
are the front-end engineering a sustainable manner ensuring
loaders of every technical/ the continuity of the consulting
infrastructure development as engineering service to both
their service focal area lies public and private sectors
in planning, design, material
Lefadi Makibinyane (CEO)
selection and tender technical On the issue of the National
specification. Development Plan (NDP) Makibinyane believes
that investment is the driver for any economic
We are going to strive to make membership of development of a nation. Earning foreign direct
CESA the premier membership sought after by any investment brings prosperity to a Nation, through
practicing engineering firm across the racial divide the creation of jobs and building of foreign currency
so that clients requiring consulting engineering reserves; it is good for our gross domestic product.
services begin to associate astute quality, integrity
and sustainability of service with the membership South Africa has just developed the NDP with
of CESA locally, on the continent and across the ambitious targets of reducing unemployment and
globe, avers Makibinyane inequality. It will be an impossible feat to achieve
these goals without opening up to globalisation
He argues that the work of an Engineer centres where both local and international Investors are
around harnessing the might of science for safe encouraged to aggressively invest into the local
human use and benefit within the constraints of economy.
the natural environment. One cannot achieve
any quality of service as an engineer if you are To successfully implement the NDP and meet

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