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Obituary – Professor Tania Douglas

by host | May 14, 2021 | home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page, Uncategorized

11 August 1969 – 20 March 2021 It is with great sadness that we learnt of the passing of Fellow Tania Douglas on 20 March 2021 following a courageous battle with breast cancer. She was aged just 51. At the time of her death, Tania was a professor at the University of...

Advisory Note 4 The importance of hydrological information.

by host | Feb 25, 2021 | only-on-the-news-page, Slidder-news-at-the-top

Building a Better post-COVID Water Sector Advisory Note 4: The foundation of our water security is eroding – why hydrological information is important Floods have recently taken lives and destroyed infrastructure across the country, from the Northern Cape to...

New CAETS Communication Prizes

by host | Feb 25, 2021 | CAETS, home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page, Slidder-news-at-the-top

The CAETS Communications Committee has established two annual CAETS Communications Prizes recognising the best short videos from member academies in the following two categories Engineering Success Stories. This category would be based on the work of established...

CAETS 2020

by host | Feb 25, 2021 | CAETS, home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page

The 2020 CAETS Convocation, which was scheduled to take place in June 2020 but had to be postponed due to the Corona virus pandemic, was hosted by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in Seoul from 12 to 15 October 2020. The theme was Engineering a better...

Obituary – Theo van Robbroeck

by host | Feb 25, 2021 | home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page

1 November 1931 – 17 January 2021 Water Engineer Extraordinaire It was with great sadness that we learnt that Fellow Theo van Robbroeck had succumbed to Covid-19 in the early hours of 17 January 2021, only eleven days after the passing of his beloved wife, Irma,...

Obituary – Nape Maepa