Civil Engineering January-February 2022 | Vol 30 No 1

46 January/February 2022 Civil Engineering THE GRADE OF SAICE FELLOW EXPLAINED F ellows are corporate members of SAICE who have achieved appropriate recognition in the civil engineering profession and/or in the Institution. They are considered to have significantly contributed to the profession, displaying substantial responsibility and initiative in the practice of civil engineering, and have considerable professional experience. This membership cat- egory presently comprises around 3% of SAICE’s total membership. A nominee is usually proposed for this honour by a SAICE branch or technical division, and the nomination has to be sup- ported by three corporate members, at least one of whom must be a Fellow. Nominations are considered by the SAICE College of Fellows, which comprises the current president, president-elect, immediate past president and two recent past presidents. Approved nominees are recommended to the Executive Board for confirmation and thereafter notified by letter from the CEO. They may then proudly display FSAICE behind their names. RANDEER KASSERCHUN Randeer Kasserchun (Pr Eng) is Deputy Head of eThekwini Municipality’s Coastal Stormwater and Catchment Management Department, Engineering Unit. He matriculated in Durban and graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 1994. Between 1995 and 1996 he was involved in the Training and Development Programme and attended the School of Public Policy and Development Management at UKZN where he obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Development Management, specialising in project management, organisation and management systems, finance and law, and public administration. He joined the City of Durban as a graduate hydraulic engineer in 1995 and has been practising in the hydrology and coastal engineering field for the past 26 years. Randeer obtained his professional status in 1998 and has been a corporate member of SAICE since 2007. He has also been a corporate member of IMESA since 2012 and has been a Council and Exco member for the past eight years. He occupied the post of Vice President of IMESA (Technical Division) from 2014 to 2018. Randeer was also President of IMESA from 2018 to 2020 and currently serves as Deputy President. He was the engineer on the Umhlanga Pier which received the SAICE Durban Branch award for Technical Excellence in 2007 and the IMESA National Award (structures category) in 2008. In 2014 the Umhlanga Pier was declared the “World’s most beautiful Pier” by CNN. Randeer’s passions include promoting maths and sci- ence at school level as well as mentoring and recruitment of young engineers. THERESA MJENGE Theresa Mjenge (Pr Tech Eng) is a civil engineer and construction project manager with 27 years’ experience in infrastructure design, programme and project management, and the design and management of labour-based construction methods. Her work has included overseeing design processes and ISO quality management systems compliance, business development, operations, project delivery for roads and highways, focussing on bus rapid transit networks in Durban and Tshwane, and liaising and interacting with service providers, management, and stakeholders. She also served as the design and contract engineer for the upgrading of 15 km of roads in Ezakheni and Shayamoya and for the preliminary design for the Port Harcourt (Nigeria) bulk water supply. LYNNE PRETORIUS Lynne Pretorius (Pr Eng) is a professionally registered transportation engineer with roughly 25 years of project planning and problem-solving skills in transportation planning and engineering. She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1993 with a degree in civil engineering and subsequently completed her master’s degree in trans- portation engineering at the University of Stellenbosch in 2004. Lynne has the unique ability to straddle both the planning and implementation phases of project implementation and specifically gets involved in projects where the integration of land use and transport systems are required. SAICE celebrates new Fellows