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Issue Date: October 2002

Memorial Trust to help engineering students

1 October 2002

Honouring the memory of Josia Nkosi - the pioneering 60-year-old civil engineering contractor who died in a hijack attempt outside his Daveyton home last year - South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) president, Trueman Goba, recently launched the Josia Nkosi Memorial Trust Fund.
The newly formed trust, established in partnership with Wits University, will help finance the living expenses of promising first-year civil engineering students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. The learners' tuition costs will be paid by Wits, and the head of the School of Civil Engineering, Professor Yunus Ballim, who will administer the fund, will nominate grant recipients.
Professor Yunus Ballim, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, will administer the Josia Nkosi Memorial Trust Fund
Professor Yunus Ballim, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, will administer the Josia Nkosi Memorial Trust Fund
Among other projects, Nkosi - the founding director of Makhosi Construction - was at the time of his death one of the managers working hard to finalise completion of the Katama Sinthumule maximum security prison contract near Louis Trichardt, as part of CGM Joint Venture. Nkosi was one of the first black engineers in South Africa. He graduated from Wits in 1978. He was widely known and respected in the construction industry and also government circles.
Speaking at the launch of the fund, attended by Nkosi's widow, Primrose, and his son, Sibusiso, Ballim said Nkosi would continue to play a crucial role in the civil engineering community, even after his untimely death. "The Josia Nkosi Memorial Trust Fund addresses the sustainability of our profession. Our future is dependent on the provision of world-class training to engineers from all backgrounds - not only to those who can afford it."
Making an inaugural contribution of R10 000 to the fund, Craig Yeatman, managing director of WorldsView Technologies, which distributes Autodesk design software in Africa, said he hoped recipients of grants from the fund would emulate Nkosi's spirit. In addition, Autodesk will also make a R5000 contribution to the Joshua Nkosi Memorial Trust Fund for the next five years.
Anyone who would like to contribute to the Josia Nkosi Memorial Trust Fund should contact Professor Yunus Ballim, Head of the Dept of Civil Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, on 011 717 7100


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