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Jaycee Kruger named International Correspondent for PMForum in South Africa
Mr. Jaycee Kruger has been named an International Correspondent for PMForum in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jaycee is also the Managing Director of CMSS, trading as Construction Management Support Services, a consulting company specializing in the improvement of project delivery capability of its clients and based in Gauteng.
Jaycee Krüger, PMP, PrTechEng, is past president and chair of the board of directors of the South Africa Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). He was also a founding member and is a vice president of Project Management Institute South Africa (PMSA), a national association. Mr. Krüger has spent over 29 years working in project environments with increasing responsibility, from technical design and construction supervision through construction management and project management to executive head of various functional departments and director of a major South African project management and engineering company operating globally. Project experience includes power generation, industrial and mining projects, from shutdowns through brown-fields to green-fields in extremely remote places.
Serving his two professions, civil engineering and project management, Jaycee was founding member of several organisations and branches of organisations, as well as subject matter expert in statutory boards governing project management. Some of his specific roles have included:
He is presently active in PMI where he serves on the Component Services Members Advisory Group (CSMAG), the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE), PMSA where he is currently Vice President International Liaison, and the South African Institute of Civil Engineering (SAICE). He has delivered various voluntary papers and lectures on project management topics over the years on a global basis.
Gauteng is a province of South Africa formed from part of the old Transvaal province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994. It was initially named Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (or PWV) and was renamed Gauteng in December 1994. Situated in the heart of the Highveld, Gauteng is highly urbanized and now the most populous province in South Africa, with over 9.5 million people living there. The name Gauteng comes from the Sesotho word meaning Place of Gold, the historical Sesotho name for Johannesburg and surrounding areas referring to the thriving gold industry in the province following the 1886 discovery of gold in Johannesburg.
Gauteng is the wealthiest province in South Africa and has the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the economic hub of South Africa and contributes heavily in the financial, manufacturing, transport, technology and telecommunications sectors, amongst others. It also hosts a large number of overseas companies that want a commercial base in and gateway to Africa. Although Gauteng is the smallest of South Africa's nine provinces - it covers only 1.4% of the country's total land area - it contributes more than 58% of its gross domestic product (GDP) as well as 60% of its fiscal revenue. Gauteng generates 39% of the GDP of the entire African continent. Gauteng is also a centre of learning in South Africa, with many universities and other schools of higher learning.
The City of Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng province and the largest and most populous city in South Africa. The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Areas has a population of over eight million and is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world. Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills. Johannesburg is served by O.R. Tambo International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in Africa and a gateway for international air travel to and from the rest of southern Africa. Johannesburg's land area of 1,644 square kilometres (635 sq mi) is very large when compared to other cities, resulting in a population density of only 1,962 inhabitants per square kilometre (5,082/sq mi). Johannesburg also encompasses Soweto, a township that the apartheid government established to accommodate the large number of migrant workers.
The Republic of South Africa is the country at the southern tip of Africa. It borders the Atlantic and Indian oceans and Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho. South Africa is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The South African economy is the largest in Africa and 24th largest in the world. Due to this it is the most developed country on the African continent.
South Africa has experienced a different history from other nations in Africa because of early immigration from Europe and the strategic importance of the Cape Sea Route. European immigration began shortly after the Dutch East India Company founded a station at what would become Cape Town, in 1652. South Africa is ethnically diverse, with the largest Caucasian, Indian, and racially mixed communities in Africa. Black South Africans, who speak nine officially recognized languages, and many more dialects, account for approximately 75% of the population. Racial strife between the white minority and the black majority has played a large part in South Africa's history and politics, with apartheid instituted in 1948 by the National Party. The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed in 1990, after a long and sometimes violent struggle. Regular elections have been held for almost a century; but most South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994.
South Africa is the only nation in the world with three capital cities: Cape Town, the largest of the three, is the legislative capital; Pretoria is the administrative capital; and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. South Africa is a middle-income country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange (the JSE Limited), that ranks among the top twenty in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods. South Africa is ranked 24th in the world in GDP.
In many respects, South Africa is developed; however, advanced development is significantly localized around four areas, namely Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Pretoria/Johannesburg. Beyond these four economic centres, development is marginal and poverty still reigns despite government efforts. Consequently the vast majority of South Africans are poor. With an official population of around 47 million, refugees from neighboring countries have contributed to a high unemployment rate among the poor. For additional information about Johannesburg, Gauteng and South Africa, visit Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa, the source of information in this article.
Jaycee Krüger, who has worked to advance the Project Management profession in South Africa for many years, is based in Heidelberg, a rural town close to Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa and can be reached at jckruger@greybeards.co.za. We at PMForum welcome Jaycee to our Global Correspondents Network in support of www.pmforum.org, PM World Today and the world of professional project management.
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Serving his two professions, civil engineering and project management, Jaycee was founding member of several organisations and branches of organisations, as well as subject matter expert in statutory boards governing project management. Some of his specific roles have included:
- Founder member and public relations officer of South African Institute of Civil Engineering Technicians, SAICET, now SAICE (Vaal Triangle Branch)
- Chairman of the BOD, past president and past VP - Education on national executive of PMI (SA Chapter)
- Founder member and VP – International liaison on the national executive of PMSA, an independent association representing project management in South Africa.
- Past board member of the Services Sector Education and Training Authority (SSETA) formed in terms of the Skills Development Act 97 of 1998.
- Past board member and vice chairman of the project management services chamber, PMSC, of the SSETA.
- Founder member of the Project Management Standards Generating Body (PM SGB) formed under NQF 03 in terms of the SAQA Act 58 of 1995.
- Steering committee member for the writing of the draft bill controlling the project- and construction management professions in the built environment in South Africa – The P&CM Act 48 of 2000.
He is presently active in PMI where he serves on the Component Services Members Advisory Group (CSMAG), the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE), PMSA where he is currently Vice President International Liaison, and the South African Institute of Civil Engineering (SAICE). He has delivered various voluntary papers and lectures on project management topics over the years on a global basis.
Gauteng is the wealthiest province in South Africa and has the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the economic hub of South Africa and contributes heavily in the financial, manufacturing, transport, technology and telecommunications sectors, amongst others. It also hosts a large number of overseas companies that want a commercial base in and gateway to Africa. Although Gauteng is the smallest of South Africa's nine provinces - it covers only 1.4% of the country's total land area - it contributes more than 58% of its gross domestic product (GDP) as well as 60% of its fiscal revenue. Gauteng generates 39% of the GDP of the entire African continent. Gauteng is also a centre of learning in South Africa, with many universities and other schools of higher learning.
South Africa has experienced a different history from other nations in Africa because of early immigration from Europe and the strategic importance of the Cape Sea Route. European immigration began shortly after the Dutch East India Company founded a station at what would become Cape Town, in 1652. South Africa is ethnically diverse, with the largest Caucasian, Indian, and racially mixed communities in Africa. Black South Africans, who speak nine officially recognized languages, and many more dialects, account for approximately 75% of the population. Racial strife between the white minority and the black majority has played a large part in South Africa's history and politics, with apartheid instituted in 1948 by the National Party. The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed in 1990, after a long and sometimes violent struggle. Regular elections have been held for almost a century; but most South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994.
In many respects, South Africa is developed; however, advanced development is significantly localized around four areas, namely Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Pretoria/Johannesburg. Beyond these four economic centres, development is marginal and poverty still reigns despite government efforts. Consequently the vast majority of South Africans are poor. With an official population of around 47 million, refugees from neighboring countries have contributed to a high unemployment rate among the poor. For additional information about Johannesburg, Gauteng and South Africa, visit Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa, the source of information in this article.
Jaycee Krüger, who has worked to advance the Project Management profession in South Africa for many years, is based in Heidelberg, a rural town close to Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa and can be reached at jckruger@greybeards.co.za. We at PMForum welcome Jaycee to our Global Correspondents Network in support of www.pmforum.org, PM World Today and the world of professional project management.
