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<td align="left" valign="top"><h1><a>Women Leading in Engineering</a></h1>
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<td><p>We are celebrating some strong, female leaders in the engineering industry this month, in recognition of the great role they play in the consulting engineering industry. In this feature we profile Malani Padayachee-Saman, Vee Munnery, Logashri Sewnarain and Zeenat Ghoor.</p>
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<p><strong>Malani Padayachee-Saman</strong><br />
As a first-mover, Malani founded Malani Padayachee and Associates (MPA) 23 years ago. This consulting engineering firm was a 100% black women owned and managed organisation, and held a broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) level 1 status.</p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">In August 2020, MPA and investment holding company, Motseng Women Investments announced the acquisition of 100% equity of Mott MacDonald Africa (Pty) Ltd, the South African engineering entity of Mott MacDonald. MPA was rebranded as MPAMOT (Pty) Ltd (pronounced M.P.A.MOT). Malani was appointed as the chief executive officer and Ipeleng Mkhari as the chair of the board of directors.</span></p>
<p>Over the years, Malani has gained industry recognition for her excellence in engineering design and her dedication to growing the industry and investing in the development of young engineers. As a respected female-owned company in a male-dominated sector, she spearheads and advocates for quality and integrity whilst also ensuring gender mainstreaming in the industry.</p>
<p>In the past 27 years, Malani Padayachee-Saman has distinguished herself as an exemplary engineer and business leader. This statement is confirmed when we consider the four areas that form the foundation of an exemplary engineer: technical engineering competence; leadership and skills transfer in the establishment of MPA Consulting Engineers; inspiring and developing future engineers; and transforming the engineering industry. </p>
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<p><strong><span lang="EN-ZA" xml:lang="EN-ZA">Jabulile Msiza<u></u><u></u></span></strong><br />
<span lang="EN-ZA" xml:lang="EN-ZA">Jabulile Msiza currently sits on Jones & Wagener’s Board of Directors where she also heads a dynamic team of engineers in the Waste Engineering Department servicing waste management facilities across South Africa and other African regions. With near 15 years’ working experience, more than ten years as an ECSA registered professional engineer, she is passionate about design for environmental protection, particularly for waste management facilities, construction of barrier and capping systems, and promoting the understanding and appropriate use of geosynthetic materials. Her active involvement in various local and international societies reinforces her dedication to continual professional development and knowledge sharing. Growth and advancement of young people motivates her and most of her management portfolios are linked to this natural affinition for people, even extending her role as a mentor beyond her company boundaries.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Vee Munnery</strong><br />
Vee Munnery is the sole owner of Actus Integrated Management (AIM), which specialises in civil engineering consulting and construction with a grading of 6CEPE, specialising in water and sanitation engineering. She is also the chairperson and visionary of Kingdom Business, a platform for Christian businesses.</p>
<p>She was the first female to be awarded a bursary to study Civil Engineering by Msunduzi Municipality. She has a Master’s Degree in Technology (Civil Engineering) and is a registered Pr.Tech Eng. with ECSA and IPET. </p>
<p>The vision of AIM is to provide efficient and professional services to clients in the field of civil engineering, project management, ISD, and civil engineering construction by maintaining sound business principles and ethical standards. Through commitment and professional integrity, the mission of AIM is to strive to provide clients with the highest quality management, facilitation and technical services in order to promote an improved and sustainable quality of life for all South Africans.</p>
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<p><strong>Logashri Sewnarain</strong><br />
Engineering and infrastructure consultancy firm, SMEC South Africa, recently announced the promotion of Logashri Sewnarain to CEO, effective 1 August 2020, following the retirement of Kostas Rontiris.</p>
<p>Joining SMEC in 2018, Logashri holds over 24 years’ experience in managing major roads projects in South Africa as a senior level professional engineer and professional project and construction management executive. Prior to her appointment as CEO, she held the role of functional general manager, roads & highways.</p>
<p>Logashri holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and is also a fellow with the Association of Arbitrators. She is an executive board member of SMEC South Africa and chairs the Social and Ethics Committee of the board. Logashri is also a board member of the SOILCO and LDLC.</p>
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<p><strong><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Lynne Pretorius</span></strong><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Lynne Pretorius is a professionally registered transportation engineer with roughly 25 years project planning and problem-solving skills in transportation planning/engineering. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Based in their Cape Town office, she is currently a Director of Innovative Transport Solutions (ITS), a transport consulting engineering firm involved with various projects around SA and the SADC region. She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1993 with a degree in civil engineering and subsequently completed her Master’s Degree in transportation engineering at the University of Stellenbosch in 2004. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">She has the unique ability to straddle both the planning and implementation of project implementation and specifically gets involved in projects where the integration of land use and transport systems are required in fields such as transport and land use planning, traffic engineering, pedestrian and cycle planning as well as public transport operations planning. Lynne is also a Past President of CESA and served in this capacity in 2016-2017.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Zeenat Ghoor</strong><br />
Zeenat Ghoor is the CEO of Aspire Engineers, a company founded in 2015 as a solution to engineering and project management within the built environment space. From humble beginnings doing design from Zeenat’s dining room, the company now has a fully functional office providing solutions to mainly private sector clients. Aspire does a variety of work including hospitals, residential multistorey apartments, filling stations, commercial buildings, and warehouses. </p>
<p>Aspire’s staff are its greatest strength. Zeenat states that they have been so lucky to be surrounded by like-minded people who are passionate about the sector and care about their clients and delivering the best project. “We have been blessed to have a large proportion of our work being repeat work from clients and this is testament to the hard work and dedication our team brings to the company.” </p>
<p>Their aim is to be collaborative consultants. “By this we mean that we work as part of a team to make the project a success – our motto ‘Teamwork makes the dreamwork’ is the mantra we live by.”</p></td>
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