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Just 5% of Saice's 6,000 professional members are women.

He later apologised but Saice said it had terminated his contract due concern from its members.

Mr Pillay's original comments came in his column in July's edition of Saice's house magazine Civil Engineering.

But this was not enough to settle the controversy and Saice's board then decided Mr Pillay had to go.

Saice President Errol Kerst said that the response had been so large that the "ramifications of the article" could not be ignored.