About Us

Lekabe Engineering Services and Projects (Pty) Ltd (Lekabe) is an emerging and wholly female-owned engineering company that serves clients from different economic sectors in South Africa, including mining, manufacturing and local municipalities. Apart from the desire to create and nurture a black-owned commercial enterprise in the engineering sector, the promoter of Lekabe, a female with extensive experience and formal training in the mining industry, sought to carve a niche in a previously male-dominated sector.

Founded in 2015, the company’s facility is strategically located in Zinniaville, Rustenburg, in close proximity to the mining hub of the North West Province. With a level 1 Broad – Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) rating, Lekabe has built a team of professionals that is dedicated to fulfilling the firms vision of becoming a partner of choice in the provision of technical services and selected products. Unlike traditional engineering firms, Lekabe is focused on developing lasting relationships, combining all its critical skills to provide clients with custom-tailored solutions that are cost effective and sustainable. The company strives to be both an employer and service provider of choice, successfully bringing together professionals whose collective experiences and diverse backgrounds are capable of matching the challenges encountered by clients.

Our Operating Philosophy

Core Values
Commitment to Quality – Lekabe has a strict and consistent commitment to high standards, leading the achievement of uniformity of products and services, ultimately guaranteeing client satisfaction. Precision guarantees exceptional output. We believe in exactness of execution to surpass client expectation.

Positive Attitude. We are confident that ‘we can do’ and ‘we will’. Always. Lekabe will continue to learn, maturing beautifully with every experience as wine does with time.

Life-long Partnerships – For Lekabe, real value stems from mutually beneficial and lasting relationships with our clients. We aim to partner, a quality beyond service provision.

Meet Our Team

Gaopalelwe is an astute; results oriented artisan, one of the pioneering women to join the mining industry after 1994. A qualified artisan, Gaopalelwe cut her teeth at Anglo Platinum’s Mogalakwena South Plant, where she started off as an Apprentice Fitter, and trained to the status of Artisan Fitter. Having attained her professional qualification, she successfully served and rose through the ranks to become a Mechanical Foreman at Anglo Platinum Mine’s, Western Limb Tailings Plant. After exposure to the mining industry, and observing the absence of female operators and service providers, Gaopalelwe left formal employment in 2017 to spearhead the establishment of Lekabe Engineering Services and Projects (Pty) Ltd. Since then, she has successfully led the establishment of the company, including the development of internal operational systems, policies and procedures to conform with industry and client requirements. She has also been instrumental in driving an aggressive business development effort for the emerging enterprise. Having successfully matriculated in 1998, Gaopalelwe is the holder of the N3 and N4 Mechanical Engineering Certificates from the Wescol Randfontein Campus and Orbit College respectively; the Engineering Supervisors’ Certificate (Anglo Platinum); the Junior Managers’ Programme certificate from the Wits Business
School; and various Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses received during her career.
Gaopalelwe brings with her a rich background of practical experience within the mining sector, thus her ability to comprehend client challenges, and to devise equally matching and innovative solutions.

Motlagomang is a seasoned career administrator, with close to 30 years’ experience serving in senior positions for organisations which include the departments of Public Works; and Transport, Roads and
Community Safety. An ardent supporter of gender equality and the development of women, Motlagomang has been a major driving force behind the establishment of Lekabe, and the subsequent growth and developments that it has registered to date.
She has also made vital contributions to the company’s administrative procedures, given her extensive experience. Overally, Motlagomang has been a vital bouncing board for the Managing Director and Senior Management at Lekabe.

Apart from over 15 years serving in different roles within the construction and mining sectors, Boitumelo is a holder of the National Diploma in Building from the Tshwane University of Technology, and the National Certificate – Supervision of Construction Processes. She has also attended various administrative courses, making her the ideal candidate to attend to the administrative requirements of Lekabe. Her extensive experience in various projects has been vital to the structuring and management of Lekabe’s special projects.

Joshua is a team player with good leadership skills, qualities that enable him to harness the collective energies and experiences
of Lekabe personnel to collaborate towards serving clients. With extensive experience spanning from construction and
technology background, Joshua has served in senior positions for various organisations before settling at Lekabe. Through
the different organisations, he has amassed extensive knowledge in the management of civil and construction projects, keeping
abreast of the ever changing technology and the dynamic operating environment. With a work ethic driven by commitment
to the highest standards of execution, Joshua is an effective communicator, especially with clients, and is conversant with
many software programs and applications. A holder of the Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Land and Water Resources
Engineering, Joshua is currently completing his thesis for the Masters’ Degree in Environmental Management, specializing in
Environmental Water Requirements at North West University (Potchefstroom Campus)

ABOUT US

Our Operating Philosophy

Meet Our Team

Gaopalelwe L. Pule

Motlagomang E. Mmope

Boitumelo J. Morweng

Joshua Muchechetere