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the scene by unpacking the theme – ‘Together Management from Aurecon; Ismail Essa, SANRAL
Sustaining Engineering – Delivering NDP Priorities’ regional Manager; Tafadzwa Mukwena, YPF
in which he urged Government to use the NDP to Representative from GIBB.
attract people to the engineering sector. A very
relevant and thought provoking keynote address
was then delivered by the Honourable Minister
Thulas Nxesi from the Department of Public
Works. Vusi Thembekwayo, one of South Africa’s
leading professional speakers captured delegates
attention with his world renowned talk, Economic
Development Unlocking Opportunities.

Session 2 - Infrastructure Investment
In this session Kate Masaha, Acting HOD from
Public Works gave a presentation followed by
presentations by Sinazo Sibisi, Group Executive
Manager, Infrastructure Delivery from the DBSA;
Logan Pillay, Executive Head, Engineering Centre Inba Thumbiran, Programme Manager, Procurement and
of Excellence from Eskom; Mervin Joseph, Project Delivery Management from the cidb
Director Technical from Transnet; and Gaillard
Rossouw, Building Engineering Lead for Central
District, AECOM.

Session 3 Panel Discussion PCES Success Factors
David Lewis; Inba Thumbiran (cidb); Tafadzwa Mukwena
(YPF, GIBB); Ismail Essa (SANRAL); Jacques Kotze (Aurecon)

Session 4 Role of Education in addressing
Sectoral Lack of Capacity
Kate Masaha, Acting HOD from Public Works
Alex Kinmont, DDG Special Projects Unit from the
Session 3 Creating a Conducive and Department of Higher Education presented a paper
Transformational Environment for on ‘Engineering skills for strategic infrastructure
Procurement projects’. This was followed by a presentation by
Inba Thumbiran, Programme Manager, Adrian Peters Vice President of ECSA on ‘Public
Procurement and Delivery Management from sector engineering capacity and capability for
the cidb presented a paper on ‘Improving the NDP’. Both speakers joined the panel discussion
capability of the state to deliver infrastructure’. on ‘Educational initiatives supporting Engineering’.
This was followed by a panel discussion PCES Also joining the panel was Duncan Daries, IMESA
Success Factors and panellists included Jacques President and Imraan Mahomed, representing
Kotze, Global Head of Property and Supply Chain CESA’s YPF and AECOM.

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