Lineree de Jager

Linereè started at PGS Heritage in 2015 after she was awarded an internship through the National Research Foundation (NRF). Before this, she completed her BA (Hon) in Archaeology at the University of South Africa. As part of her thesis, she did a typology on a historic graveyard in Mpumalanga, a poster for these studies was displayed at the ASAPA conference in Zimbabwe in 2015. She has been furthering her studies in the Health, Safety and Environmental legislation to ensure PGS Heritage complies to all standards when conducting work on various mining development sites. Since then she has been appointed as an archaeologist and HSE representative for the grave relocations done by PGS Heritage. She has experience in multiple areas of the grave relocation process; preparation of legal notices, correspondence with permitting authorities, documentation of graves and burial grounds, exhumation processes and the preparation of reports. The administration and mitigation of some of these grave relocations took place in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North-west, Free State, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and in Mozambique. Linereè is accredited with ASAPA as a Professional Archaeologist with accreditation as Field Supervisor in Stone Age and Iron and Field Director in Grave Relocations.