Our dedicated committee guides SEED’s mission to create a more sustainable built environment.
Mathapelo is an experienced Professional Engineer with a deep passion for developing socio-economic infrastructure across Africa and mining communities. She is equally dedicated to environmental protection, recognising the importance of balancing business and societal needs with environmental sustainability. Her extensive expertise encompasses the development and execution of both greenfield and brownfield mining projects, alongside the construction of municipal water infrastructure and socio-economic development initiatives.
Khomotjo Mokgotho is a passionate Civil Engineering graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand. Born and raised in Mmotong, Limpopo, she completed her secondary schooling at Mohlapetse Secondary School. Khomotjo has always believed in challenging norms and breaking barriers—a mindset shaped early on by her father, who involved her in his welding projects and showed her that skill and ambition know no gender. Choosing engineering was Khomotjo’s way of making a bold statement: that women also belong in technical fields, and that anyone can achieve what they set their mind to. She is deeply passionate about creating positive change and inspiring young people, especially those from rural areas, to learn about engineering and the possibilities it offers as exposure is limited to those areas.
Grant is a Professional Engineering Technologist with over 14 years of experience in natural resource management within the agricultural sector. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of the Free State. His extensive background combines technical expertise with a deep commitment to sustainable agricultural practices and environmental stewardship.
Hans studied Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town and completing his BSc in 1981. In 1991 he completed a Graduates Diploma in Engineering also at the University of Cape Town.
After working for a construction company for 8 years, he took up employment with the Department of Agriculture for the next 30 years. Here he was responsible for the design of many soil conservation structures including weirs, as well as the development of the use of groyne structures for riverbank stabilization in the Western Cape. He has since presented several papers on the use of groyne structures. In 2016 he was one of a team of authors who produced a Water Research Commission report on the rehabilitation of rivers and wetlands in South Africa. Currently he is part of a team producing a second river rehabilitation report for the WRC.
In 2019, he started his own consultancy HansKingSRS (Pty) Ltd and focuses on the planning of river stabilization projects. Hans is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Civil Engineers (SAICE) as well as a Fellow of the South African Institute of Agricultural Engineers (SAIAE).
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