The Association for Project Management South Africa is a non-profit section 21 company whose membership compromise of Individual Project Managers through Southern Africa and organizations in the region.

Membership Types
o Corporate
o Full Member
o Associate
o Student

Corporate
Corporate membership means a company becomes a member of APMSA for the purpose to gain from the APMSA programmes and consulting services and an association with IPMA. The Board discusses corporate membership benefits, and a corporate Service level Agreement is developed to satisfy identified corporate needs. Consulting services to improve or anchor project management frameworks and systems in the organization are offered. Organisational maturity is a focus point that will permit competent project managers to operate and be effective.

Member
Member status is where a person has more experience in Project Management and has dealt with complex and non-complex project management issues.

Associate
Associate membership is open to anyone who has an interest in project management but lacks experience and knowledge but wants to improve his skills.

Student
Student membership is open those that are young/new in project management and that are studying in a professional discipline or just finished studying towards a management qualification.

Why should you join?
1. Maintain a professional body for pm in South Africa with links to international organizations like IPMA to benefit from the networking and exchanges that international organizations afford.
2. Develop and promote a common pm understanding in SA through bodies like SAPMO (a pm federation compromising PMI/PMSA, APMSA and SAPCI). When possible, APMSA contributes about project management at governmental level.
3. Continuous evaluation of needs of practicing project managers and employers of project managers to refine products and services
4. Formulate pm training and competence programmes. We work with IPMA to develop PSS 4-L-C.
5. Accredit Training Services Provider courses and lecturers to ensure that members receive training suitable for complex project management contrary to programmes based on project management in the non-complex project management environment. Accredit trainers (min. Level-B) and accredit training material to meet IPMA ICB3 requirements.
6. Develop organization pm maturity and certify them to be project ready. We work with GPM-IPMA and the Scandinavians organizations to formulate a company maturity model based on ICB3 and DIN 69904.
7. Give access to the IPMA website for members.
8. Promote pm-competence, and qualification quality through certification programme and accreditation (ISO/IEC 17024) based on IPMA rules, ICRG and the ICB standard, consolidated in the National Competence Baseline (NCB).
9. APMSA-Cert is an ISO/IEC17024 and ICRG imperative to provide IPMA programmes, and does consulting work in project management.
Membership entitlement
1. Invitations special meetings/ workshops arranged from time to time for professional development.
2. A copy of the magazine Management Today issued 11 times per year.
3. Information about pm activities world wide.
4. Circulation of articles of interest from the International PM Journal, and access to journal at a special additional cost.
5. Participation in the APMSA-IPMA PM 4-L-C certification programme
6. Your certification status is published in the IPMA yearbook worldwide.
7. Attendance and voting rights at the Annual General Meeting.

How to Register
1. Download and complete application form from the website.
2. Obtain the membership form from Tembie Ngwenya at +27 11 787 9721.
3. Complete the application and wait for APMSA approval and membership rating and invoice.
4. Membership is confirmed and a membership certificate is issued.