SANRAL appoints Transformation Manager
Pretoria, 5 March 2017 - The South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd (SANRAL) announced today that it has appointed Mr Ismail Essa as SANRAL’s Transformation Manager to report directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). His appointment will take effect from 1 April 2017.
Announcing the appointment, SANRAL CEO Skhumbuzo Macozoma said: “The time to bolster government’s economic transformation priorities is now.
“One of Mr Essa's immediate priorities will be to ensure sub-sector transformation across the supply value chain we deal with. This will include, among others, construction work, maintenance, property and operations, professional services and non-core services. Secondly, he has been tasked with ensuring that SANRAL creates an enabling environment for small contractors, particularly black-owned ones, to access opportunities through procurement.”
Macozoma explained that this is a new position which has been set up to fundamentally direct spending towards emerging black-owned enterprises.
Essa, a qualified civil engineer, is an industry heavyweight with 36 years’ experience within the roads and civil engineering sector. Backed by 21 years’ experience as a contractor with a major listed company in South Africa, Essa first joined SANRAL in 2001 as a Senior Project Manager. Within two years, he was promoted to Regional Manager for the Northern Region (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West provinces), a position he has held for the past 14 years.