{"id":5734,"date":"2011-11-28T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/pe-alumni-achievers\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T15:33:00","slug":"pe-alumni-achievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pe-alumni-achievers\/","title":{"rendered":"PE Alumni Achievers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>Every year, <a title=\"NMMU\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/\/search.cgi?keywords=NMMU\">NMMU<\/a> recognises alumni who have gone the distance and beyond in their specialist fields, benefitting society at local, provincial, national or international levels. This year is no different. A number of outstanding nominations were received by the Alumni Awards Committee, and the seven worthy candidates and one special award winner was selected by the Alumni Association Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The following recipients were recognized at this year\u2019s event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers and BCom (Hons) graduate, Colin Beggs,<\/li>\n<li>Chartered Accountant and Chief Financial Officer of South African investment holding group Remgro Ltd Leon Crouse,<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of Murray and Roberts\u2019 Construction and founder member of the South African Business Council in Dubai Nigel Harvey,<\/li>\n<li>Extraordinary legal mind and President Jacob Zuma\u2019s lawyer Kemp J Kemp,<\/li>\n<li>BCom (Hons) graduate and renowned business transformer and former chairman of South Africa\u2019s largest citrus exporter John Lynch,<\/li>\n<li>Award winning Afrikaans novelist and master\u2019s graduate Eben Venter and<\/li>\n<li>Multi-award winning cyber security expert and research professor in the Academy for Computer Science and Software at the University of Johannesburg Prof Basie von Solms.<\/li>\n<li>An Alumni Association Special Award was awarded to retired social work lecturer and PhD graduate Dr Erra Cilliers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/71fe4_Alumni_Achievers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/71fe4_Alumni_Achievers.jpg\" alt=\"Alumni Achievers\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NMMU Alumni Achievers: Back Left to Right: Kemp J Kemp, Leon Crouse, Prof von Solms- front Dr Erra Cilliers and Colin Beggs. Absent were Nigel Harvey, Eben Venter and John Lynch.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, NMMU recognises alumni who have gone the distance and beyond in their specialist fields, benefitting society at local, provincial, national or international levels. This year is no different. 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