SA Affordable Housing March - April 2020 // ISSUE: 81 | Page 28
PROFILE
A passion
for concrete
By Eamonn Ryan
Matthews Magwaza, lecturer
at The School of Concrete
Technology (SCT), has been
working for the Institute
for 27 years, 15 of those as
its most highly experienced
lecturer in concrete.
M
agwaza started by doing all the concrete
courses himself, qualifying as a concrete
technologist through the TCI, which
delivers courses overseen by the UK Institute of
Concrete Technology.
“I started as a laboratory assistant and worked
my way up to lecturing,” he says. From this
experience, he is one of the most well-known
lecturers and personalities in the concrete industry,
whether at universities of technology, universities
or among the corridors of construction corporates.
“What inspired me to follow this field is
concrete: I love concrete. Even before TCI (as it
only later came to be known) I worked for a
company called Cement Distributors in its sales
department. I was intrigued by the various aspects
of concrete and wanted to know more about it. So,
I did various courses at that early stage through
TCI’s predecessor Cement and Concrete Institute,
which qualified me as a concrete technologist,”
says Magwaza.
Matthews Magwaza, lecturer at The School of Concrete Technology (SCT), at his favourite spot – the lecturer’s podium.
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