22 October 2025 – Phodisho Samuel Maganyela, a 15-year-old, Grade 10 learner from Lesedi Secondary School in the Tshwane District, in Bronkhorstspruit, has claimed top honours in the 2025 Bokamoso Creative Essay Competition, recently held in Klipspruit, Gauteng, where he impressed judges with his imaginative and practical solutions that empower youth-driven sustainability efforts....
29 October 2021: Knight Piésold has been providing engineering and environmental consultancy services to Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) Plc for the past seven years. The consulting engineering firm was founded in Johannesburg 100 years ago and today operates in 15 countries....
15 September 2021: Skills development is a critical component that will contribute to the success of South Africa’s economic growth, infrastructure development, and our future generations. One company, which builds its core culture around such growth and development, is Knight Piésold, a consulting engineering firm which provides specialist services to businesses operating in the mining, power, water resources, infrastructure, and oil and gas industries....
2 September 2021: The New York Academy of Sciences estimates that sub-Saharan Africa requires 2.5 million more engineers to address the continent’s gravest development problems....
6 July 2021: This year marks a historic milestone for Knight Piésold, a consulting engineering firm, whose roots go back 100 years in South Africa. The company was founded in Johannesburg in 1921, and has grown from small beginnings into a global consulting firm operating in 15 countries worldwide. With a staff complement of 850 people, the firm is passionate about creating value for clients at every stage of a project. ...
Business schools always tell their students to “expect the unexpected” and to plan for scenarios one might not expect to see in their organisation or industry. But the COVID-19 pandemic is something no business was truly prepared for. While some companies were better prepared than others, everyone had lessons to learn. ...
18 May: Namibia’s mining industry boasts significant opportunities and remains one of the most favourable jurisdictions in the world according to the Investment Attractiveness Index, states Cilliers Mostert, director for consulting engineering firm, Knight Piésold Africa’s operations in Namibia. ...
22 April 2021: From its humble beginnings in South Africa on the 1st of April 1921, Knight Piésold has established and grown its local operations within Southern Africa, through its offices in Namibia, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Madagascar, Swaziland, Mauritius and South Africa. ...
The median population for Africa is projected to reach 1.68 billion by 2030, which presents significant opportunities for the public and private sectors to help shape the continent for growth across various industries....
23 March: This year marks a historic milestone for Knight Piésold, a consulting engineering firm whose roots go back 100 years in South Africa. The company was founded in Johannesburg in 1921 and has grown from small beginnings into a global consulting firm operating in 15 countries worldwide. With a staff complement of 850 people, the firm aims to create value for clients at every stage of a project....