PPM Lecturers

Module: Legal Aspects for Project Managers

Adriette Dekker is an admitted attorney, conveyancer and notary of the High Court of South Africa and obtained her doctorate degree in labour law in 2005. She was in full-time practice for 5 years before she joined UNISA in 2003. She served as a Professor in Labour Law at UNISA for more than 10 years whereafter she decided to return to private practice. She is a freelance academic specialist and she continues to teach labour law on a part-time basis at various tertiary institutions.

Adriette holds a BLC (cum laude) LLB from the University of Pretoria and a LLM and LLD from the University of South Africa. She also has an Advanced Diploma in Labour Law (University of Johannesburg) and a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (cum laude) presented and accredited by the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa (AFSA) & University of Pretoria. She is also a panel member of AFSA
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Module: Project Management in the Business Context

Dr Dolf Steyn, is fifty-nine years of age, married, father to three children and grandpa to one.

He is currently self-employed as freelance Project manager, Higher Education consultant, and facilitator. His last full-time position was that of Managing Director for Pearson Institute of Higher Education (commonly referred to as a private University). Having led a national multi campus company which was internationally owned by a London listed company, he is well salted and equipped to deal with the range, complexity, and nature of the associated challenges. He has rich experience in dealing with all components of managing, leading, technology adoption and working in Higher education and the international corporate environment.

During his time as a Lead consultant at Deloitte consulting, he started a project management office for a team who among others did SABA installations, LMS rollouts and custom software solutions.
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Senior Lecturer | Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria

Module: Agile Project Management

Prof Lizette Weilbach is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria with more than 25 years of academic, training, and consulting experience. She specializes in Business Analysis, Information Systems Development, Change Management, Design Thinking, and Project Management, and holds a PhD in Information Technology from the University of Pretoria.

She has supervised over 100 postgraduate students and is currently mentoring 9 master’s and 7 doctoral candidates. Her research interests include digital transformation, Society 5.0 innovation, SME innovation, Agile development methodologies, project management practices, and the integration of AI in business and education.
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Senior Lecturer | University of Pretoria

Project Management Course: Project Management Course: AI for Project Success: From Basics to ChatGPT in Action

Dr Suzaan Pretorius is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Technology Management (GSTM), University of Pretoria. She joined the institution in 2015 as a part-time lecturer and later worked as a researcher, supervising 22 master’s students to completion, with four additional students expected to graduate in 2026.

She completed her PhD in 2019, focusing on how project-specific factors influence leadership styles and their impact on project performance, particularly the balance between vertical and shared leadership in different project contexts. From 2020 to 2022, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria.
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Module: Legal Aspects for Project Managers

Doctor Birgit Kuschke graduated with the degrees BLC (cum laude) in 1986 and LLB (cum laude) in 1988 from the University of Pretoria and the LLD degree in 2009 at the University of South Africa. Kuschke holds a C2 NRF-rating as researcher.

Kuschke served as a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria from March 1993 until June 2018. She thereafter held the position as Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning of the Faculty of Law from 1 July 2018 until 2020, and Acting Dean (ad hoc). After a term as Associate professor in the Department of Mercantile Law in 2020 to 2022, she retired from UP and was appointed Curriculum Expert and Lecturer at Akademia from 2022 – 2024. She lectured as an Adjunct Professor at WITS in 2025. She currently lectures postgraduate modules and supervises postgraduate dissertations and theses on an ad hoc basis for a number of universities.

She is a practising attorney, notary, and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa (admitted in 1994) and practised for her own account from 1994 until 2005 and resumed her attorneys practice in September 2020. As a practising attorney she lectures Drafting of Contracts for candidate attorneys at the Law Schools presented under the auspices of the Law Society of South Africa.
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