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SAIChE IChemE
SAIChE Council members 2017
President: D van Vuuren
Imm Past President: AB Hlatshwayo
Honorary Treasurer L van Dyk
Vice President: C Sheridan
Vice President: D Ramjugernath
Executive Council: JJ Scholtz
Executive Council: EMObwaka
Council member: KG Harding
Council member: Z Harber
Council member: BK Ferreira
Council member: M Low
Council Member: JG Potgieter
Council Member: S Mazibuko
Council Member: NN Coni
Council member: MD Heydenrych
Chair Gauteng: C Sandrock
Chair KZN: D Lokhat
Chair Western Cape: HKMazema
Contact details
SAIChE
PO Box 2125, North Riding, 2162
South Africa
Fax: +27 86 672 9430
email:
website:
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
24-25 October, Boksburg, South Africa
Covers the methodology of LOPA and
the detailed stages of its application.
Delegates are shown how to identify
significant scenarios, estimate frequen-
cies forworst-caseevents andassign risk
categories while learning how to lead a
LOPA study.
Fundamentals of Process Safety
Management
6-10 November, Boksburg, South Africa
Contact Femmy le Roux
+27 11 704 5915.
⎪ SAIChE news ⎪
SAIChE training
course diary
In 2016, the SAIChE IChemE Gauteng
Members Group awarded prizes at the
University of the Witwatersrand School of
Chemical andMetallurgical EngineeringFinal
Year Oral Presentation Day. The winners
were based on the highest marks averaged
from both internal and external examiners,
and the two groups that won were tied for
the highest marks.
The prizes that were awarded were the
“Best Final Year Chemical Engineering Oral
Presentation”. The prizes were presented to
the students by Associate Professor Michael
Daramola (pictured), at Wits University, and
a committee member of the SAIChE IChemE
GautengMembers group. Congratulations to
all of the students!
(and thereforeeconomy) and so it is anational
commitment and responsibility to change the
country’s energymix. This is important tome.
Beyond this, looking into the development
of Africa as a whole, energy access is needed
not only as ‘development’, but as a means of
access to participation in the economy and as
away of power access to information –which
is everything!
ML: What is one inspiring quote that you
live by?
‘Keep On Keeping On’. This is the underlying
ethos of my being. From sports to work to
relationships. The distance betweenmy pres-
ent andmy goals and ambitions is consistent,
persistence, dedicated work, and so I must
keep on keeping on. With no excuses.
ML: How has your chemical engineering
qualification helped you get to where you
are today?
The biggest benefit from chemical engineer-
ing – apart from finishing design and a mini
thesis and feeling like after that, there is little
Michelle Kange and Godfrey Mawire. Eric Mpholhoni and Ntuthuko Zwane.
Gauteng Members Group News
Thank you note
SAIChE IChemE Gauteng Members group
would like to thank those who attended the
eventonWednesday15February2017,titled
“The culture of safety in a process-driven
world”. The talk was given by IChemE Safety
Centre’sdirectorTrishKerinandwethankher
for her time spent
imparting her
safety knowl-
edge. Our
m e m b e r s
w h o h a d
a t t e n d e d
will earn 0.2
CPD points.
Be safe!
else I cannot conquer, has definitely been the
ability to break down problems, analysis and
solve logically, almost from first principles.
Elements of process thinking always come in
handy when attempting to solve problems,
both long term, institutional issues, and
shorter term, project specific issues.
ML: Any advice for students and colleagues?
Listen to your heart andmind, find that which
youarepassionateaboutandthatwhichfulfils
you. Do not shy away fromdoing the required
work to turn that passion into a career that
you are proud of, that adds value to society
and that feeds your soul.
We all have our part to play, and as en-
gineers, part of our calling is to be excellent
at what we do and embody the ethos of dili-
gence, precision, persistence and excellence.
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