Candidates successfully complete their Oral Defence

Monday the 13th of July 2015 served as the day for two PhD candidates and one MSc candidate to orally defend their theses and dissertation respectively.

Rashid Abrahams began his PhD journey in 2011 and successfully defended his thesis to a panel consisting of his Academic Supervisor, Dr Marthie de Kock (DLitt et Phil) and Mr DC Phiri (MSc), Mrs Carin Stoltz-Urban (Registrar), Simon Gathua (Key Account Manager: Post-Graduate studies) and invited guests of Rashid. The title of his tesis is, "Framework for Broadband Fulfilment and Assurance in the South African Telecommunications Environment: A Telkom Study".

Well done on your achievements Rashid.

Jennitha Chinniah began her PhD journey in 2011 and successfully defended her thesis to a panel consisting of her Academic Supervisor, Dr Marthie de Kock (DLitt et Phil), Dr Henri Geldenhuys, Mrs Carin Stoltz-Urban (Registrar), Simon Gathua (Key Account Manager: Post-Graduate studies) and invited guests of Jennitha. The tiltle of her thesis topic is, "Data Privacy and the Energy Distribution Market: Revisiting implications of the SMART Grid Framework."

Jennitha, Congratulations on this successful achievement.

Farouk Khan, an MSc student at Da Vinci successfully defended his dissertation to a panel consisting of his Academic Supervisor, Dr Marthie de Kock (DLitt et Phil), Mr Mehmood Haffejee, Mrs Carin Stoltz-Urban (Registrar), Simon Gathua (Key Account Manager: Post-Graduate studies) and invited guests of Farouk. His dissertation topic, "Capturing Critical Pipeline Failure Data for Optimal Maintenance Management of a Water Supply Network: A Rand Water Proposition."

Farouk, well done on successfully defending your dissertation.