Reginah Makgata has never thought in her wildest dreams that she would one day   head a male-dominated engineering department in a  municipality, never mind being one of very few women in South Africa to hold such a position.

She completed both a National Diploma in Civil Engineering and a  B-Tech degree in Urban Engineering.  She  later obtained a Bachelor of Science Honours in Applied Science for Transport Planning, a Masters of Business Administration  with the  University  of Pretoria and the  University of Limpopo respectively.