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                                    ZAKUMI Consulting Engineers is proudly South African Consulting Engineering Firm founded in 2010. Since establishment; it has delighted account of providing high quality, sustainable services across its Client base. 
</p><p>The firm embrace the idea of becoming the leading professional service provider; proving sustainable designs and solutions; which is why it’s branded by specialist and professionals formulating a strong creative and innovative team; that can work with extremely tight budget and beyond the call of duty. The company staff comprises of personnel with different backgrounds but importantly; they all share the company’s vision and values of integrity, reliability, high quality, professionalism and innovation through design and application. ZAKUMI’s medium to long term goal is to establish a significant presence in all the nine provinces in South Africa and SADC countries at large.

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                                    ZAKUMI Consulting Engineers upholds the values of human dignity, equality, freedom and security enshrined in the Constitution of the republic of South Africa. As such, the company is cognisant of the desperate need for basic services in the country’s rural communities, and uses every opportunity to design and implement the best quality, most highly sustainable engineering solutions possible to those needs. This equally applies to the urban areas in which significant infrastructure development and upgrades are required to facilitate regional and national economic growth; henceforth contributing to poverty eradication.
</p><p>The company instils a culture of close technical and social interaction among the staff and its client’s base; hence continual training, skills transfer and development of staff is imperative to the firm. ZAKUMI embraces the socio-economic transformation principles and objectives of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) and is a level one (1) (135%) contributor in accordance to the gazetted Construction Charter Codes.

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                            <p>ZAKUMI Consulting Engineers aims to grow and develop the company as a major 
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                        <p class="author-name triggerAnimation animated" data-animate='fadeInDown'>Talent Diotrefe BANDA, CEO</p>
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                                    <p class="member-about">Mr. TD Banda is a Civil Engineering Technologist 
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                                    He gained more than twelve (12) years’ experience working on Civil Projects. 
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                                    <p class="member-about">Mr. LJ Sanchez Lopez is a Civil Engineer graduated from University of Cienfuegos, Cuba with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and registered with Engineering Council of South Africa as a Professional Engineering Technology (Pr. Tech Eng). He gained more than nineteen (19) years’ experience working on Civil and Structural Projects.</p>
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                                    <p class="member-about">Mr. D Sithole is a Civil Engineering Technician graduated from Bulawayo Polytechnic College with a National Diploma  in Engineering (Civil) and registered with Engineering Council of South Africa as a Professional Engineering Technician (Pr Techni Eng). He gained more than eight (8) years’ experience working on Civil and Structural Projects.</p>
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                                    <p class="member-about">Mr. PN Nyamupingidza is a Civil Engineer graduated from National University of Science and Technology; Zimbabwe with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Degree in Civil and Water Engineering and registered with South African Institution of Civil Engineering as an Associate Member. He gained more than four (4) years experience working on Civil and Structural Projects.</p>
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                                    <p class="member-about">Miss. TC Netshia is a Civil Engineering Technician graduated from Tshwane University of Technology with a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Engineering (Civil) and registered with Engineering Council 
                                    of South Africa as a Candidate Engineering Technician. She gained more than four (4) years’ experience working on Civil Projects.  <p></p>
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                                    <p class="member-about">Miss. S Mokwatlo is a Civil Engineering Technician graduated from Vaal University of Technology (VUT) with a National Diploma in Engineering (Civil) and registered with South African Institution of Civil Engineering as a Member. She gained more than six (6) years’ experience working on Civil Projects. 

 

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