• 1981 Jennings Award made to Gary A Jones and J A van Zyl
• 1983 Jennings Award made to Fritz Wagener
• 1985 Jennings Award made to Ken Schwartz
• 1986 Jennings Award made to Brian Hall
• 1987 Jenning s Award made to Terry Pidgeon
• 1987 9th ARCSMFE, Lagos, Nigeria
• 1988 Jennings Award made to Graham Plant, Gavin Byrne, M Malcolm Jaros and Cliff MacMillan
• 1989 Jennings Award made to Geoff Blight and Mike Dane
• 1990 1st Southern African Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference at Mount Grace Hotel Magaliesberg
• 1990 the Code of Practice (COP) on lateral support in surface excavations was launched