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The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster occurred on the night of 22 February 1994 when a tailings dam failed and flooded... View Article
As part of the Problems Soils Conference held in 1985 Mr G W Donaldson wrote a paper on the developments... View Article
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Click here to download the full 1939 South African Roads Boar Act
1939 Just before World War II the South African National Roads Board was created, and several young South African engineers... View Article
1955 1st African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ARCSMFE), Pretoria 1956 first Dynamic Compaction carried out and... View Article
1961 Jennings and Brink asked that you remember Moisture, Color, Consistency, Soil type, Structure and Origin 1961 First course in... View Article
1970s Construction of Standard Bank Centre in Johannesburg In 1973 two memorable courses were held: ‘The stability of rock slopes’... View Article
1981 Jennings Award made to Gary A Jones and J A van Zyl 1983 Jennings Award made to Fritz Wagener... View Article
1991 10th ARCSMFE, Lesotho: Geotechnics in the African Environment 1993 the Barry van Wyk Award was instituted to honour the... View Article
2001 Jennings Award made to Gerhard Heymann and Chris Clayton 2002 Jennings Award made to SW Jacobz, RJ Mair, J... View Article