MEET THE PAST-PRESIDENT OF ASAQS FOR 1997/1998

PROFESSOR BASIE VERSTER IS:

• Past-president of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors 1997 / 1998
• Professor and Head of the Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management and
• Chairman of the Centre for Construction Entrepreneurs at the University of the Orange Free State
• Chairman of the Central Region of the Association of Arbitrators

He is a registered Quantity Surveyor in private practice, with extensive experience in project management, mediation and arbitration.

He is a member of the:

• South African Council for Quantity Surveyors and serves on the Education Advisory Committee of the Council
• Board of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board
• Free State Provincial Housing Board
• Committee of the Alliance of Development Professionals
• Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

Basie Verster was born in Vrede in the Free State and educated at Grey College in Bloemfontein.

Basie Verster has represented South Africa and the Free State with distinction on the rugby field and as member of the Shimlas team, he participated in two successful international tours. As a leading sports administrator and coach, he is committed to the development and advancement of sports skills in all sectors of the community.

He is a graduate of the University of the Orange Free State, where he was awarded the degree of

• Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying B Sc (QS) in 1974
• Master of Science in Quantity Surveying M Sc (QS) in 1982
• Doctor of Philosophy Ph D in 1995

He is an experienced, internationally accredited supervisor, promotor and external examiner of numerous successful postgraduate research studies.

His creative artistry is expressed in water colour paintings, and reproductions of his work were used as illustrations in his doctoral thesis.

In 1971, Basie married Hilda who is a 1997 final year candidate for the B Sc degree in Quantity Surveying at the University of the Orange Free State, and they have four sons, Pieter, Jan Frederick, Harold and Joubert.

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