Cabinet reshuffle, downgrade concerns South Africa’s engineers – Cesa
Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) on Wednesday added its voice to those that have expressed concern over the latest Cabinet reshuffle and subsequent Standard & Poor’s (S&P’s) downgrade of South Africa to sub-investment grade.
The industry association said the move risked exacerbating an already troubled economic situation and sent a message of “rewarding mediocrity and punishing excellence”.
“The latter is counter-intuitive to the culture we seek to establish among young engineering professionals who will be responsible for ensuring the wellbeing of our infrastructure for generations to come,” Cesa said in a statement.
The country cannot afford this questionable reshuffle based on the need for more “effectiveness and efficiency”, particularly since a better approach would have been to dispense of the nonperformers and bring on board more performers, it said.
“The industry is already experiencing difficulty amid corruption, appointment of consulting engineering firms that have little or no record of delivery and even mafia-style criminal activity halting construction activity.”
The downgrade to junk status further limits investor confidence and hampers economic growth and the ability to create more jobs.
“Skilled engineering practitioners from various technical disciplines are currently being retrenched at a time when this has been identified as at least six out of the ten most scarce skills in the country,” the organisation said.
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