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Alex Kinmont, DDG Special Projects Unit from the Adrian Peters, Vice President of ECSA on Public Sector
Department of Higher Education Engineering Capacity and Capability for NDP

Session 4, Panel Discussion - Educational Initiatives supporting Engineering
Alex Kinmont (Department of Higher Education), Adrian Peters (Vice President of ECSA), Duncan Daries (IMESA President) and
Imraan Mahomed (CESA YPF & AECOM)

Session 5 Promoting work opportunities for SMMEs
The final session was a panel discussion entitled, ‘Promoting work opportunities for SMMEs. Panellists
included Nevin Rajasakran from Zitholele Consulting; Virginia Strong from the WSP Group Africa;
Noqobo Bongoza representing the CESA YPF and Hatch Goba; and David Lewis, Executive Director
from Corruption Watch.

The conference was wrapped up with the conference resolutions presented by CESA CEO, Lefadi
Makibinyane. CESA believes that discussions and resolutions taken at this important conference are
imperative in unlocking the mechanisms to lever all the various disciplines to meet the challenges of
ensuring quality outcomes, building the economy and creating and sustaining a better South Africa.
Amongst these resolutions was Training & Development and Transformation & Development in the
Consulting Engineering Sector to ensure that provisional monies in project fee schedules are spent
appropriately to unlock job opportunities for graduate engineers, technicians and technologists while the
latter would seek to facilitate Joint-Ventures amongst firms to ensure access to work by Small, Medium
and Large consulting engineering firms.

The principle of the Government achieving its developmental objectives through the Private sector was

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