Company news July 2012

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Company news Specialist earth sciences consultancy, Umvoto Africa, has been selected as the best company in South Africa in southern Africa for your water professionals to develop their skills. The company, which has around 20 fulltime staff as well as four interns, competed successfully against much larger organisations to receive this prestigious award from the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA). The 2012 South African Young Water Professionals Development Award was announced at the WISA biennial conference in Cape Town earlier this year. Among the initiatives that contributed to the award were Umvoto’s intern programme, initiated in 2002 to offer practical work experience and academic and professional training to students. To date, 52 interns from Africa and abroad have worked at Umvoto for periods ranging from a few weeks to up to six months. ”Umvoto believes that technical knowledge alone is not enough to guarantee a professional contribution in a chosen field, ” reports MD Rowena Hay, who founded the consultancy 20 years ago.

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