The Bronkhorstspruit water crisis, and the wider crisis of raw sewage being discharged into our rivers and oceans, raises serious questions about the role of engineers and the engineering profession. Are witnessing a dereliction of professional duty by engineers and engineering professionals entrusted with protecting public health, infrastructure and the environment? We need to establish where authority sits, where professional engineering advice is being ignored, and where accountability ultimately lies. Let’s fix this country. Let us hope that the @PublicProtector's investigation helps uncover the root causes of these failures, strengthens accountability, empowers engineering professionals to fulfil their responsibilities, and ultimately restores affordable, safe and reliable service delivery to our communities. @ECSAOfficial @imesa_za @WaterInstSA @SALGA_Gov

The Bronkhorstspruit water crisis, and the wider crisis of raw sewage being discharged into our rivers and oceans, raises serious questions about the role of engineers and the engineering profession. Are engineering professionals being prevented from doing their jobs by political interference and dysfunctional procurement, legal, finance and HR processes? @DepartmentPWI @DWS_RSA @NationalCoGTA @PublicProtector @CityTshwane #water #watercrisis #engineers #EngineeringProfession #LGE2026

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"SA has betrayed ideals of freedom fighters" ~ Madlanga Dear @GovernmentZA, @ParliamentofRSA & #LGE2026 Candidates, #ChangingThingsSA We can reverse the betrayal of our people by putting engineers where they belong: at the forefront of protecting human dignity and driving socio-economic development. Continuing to appoint unqualified people to engineering posts deepens that betrayal, weakens accountability and creates conditions for corruption. #CityEngineers #MunicipalEngineers #EngineeringLeadership enca.com/news-top-stories/so…

Water pollution and persistent infrastructure failure cannot continue without accountability. We must ask: How many criminal cases has @DWS_RSA opened for violations of the National Water Act? How many prosecutions and convictions have followed? The time has come for the engineering profession to help hold all infrastructure stakeholders accountable, institutions and individuals alike, whether qualified or unqualified, for decisions and actions that compromise infrastructure, service delivery and the public interest. This is why South Africa needs an independent Chapter 9 Engineer-General. @unisa @CityTshwane @GovernmentZA Who hears? Who listens? Who cares?

Communities have cried out about water and failing services for far too long. Human rights cannot be separated from the engineering infrastructure required to realise them. @SAHRCommission should bring independent engineering expertise into service-delivery investigations. We need a Chapter 9 Engineer-General. @DepartmentPWI Who hears? Who listens? Who cares?

Politicians campaign on service delivery. Engineers actually deliver the services. Remember that when you vote. #EngineeringVote #AgendaForEngineering

No engineer ever got elected mayor. Yet every mayor depends on engineers to succeed. Perhaps it's time politicians listened. #EngineeringVote #LGE2026 #BronkhorstspruitWater Who hears? Who listens? Who Cares?

Technologists, Technicians and Engineers are not victims. They are agents of change. What we need is a stronger culture of engineering activism, standing up for infrastructure, basic services and sound technical decision-making. Activism can empower engineering practitioners to challenge unnecessary interference, defend professional judgement, and put engineering back at the centre of infrastructure delivery. As Victor Kgomoeswana put it: “It’s hard for a country to progress when its busiest professionals are lawyers and politicians, not engineers. Africa needs busy engineers, not just busy lawyers.” Use your engineering prowess. Use your professional voice. Get involved. Help change things. #LGE2026 #ActivistEngineer #EngChangeThings

Be an activist for the human right to reliable infrastructure and basic services. "An activist engineer is one who is willing to step back from their work & examine the question, “What is the real problem, and does this problem require an engineering solution?” ​ ~ Darshan Karwat” #ActivistEngineer #HumanRights #Affordable #Quality #Infrastructure

Be an activist for the human right to reliable infrastructure and basic services. A call to @ECSAOfficial technologists, technicians and engineers: use your knowledge, skills and professional voice to help stop the crises around us. 💧 #WaterCrisis 🚽 #PoorSanitation 🕳️ #Potholes 🚧 #IncompleteProjects 💸 #UnaffordableServices 👷 #Unemployment Engineering must be part of the solution. Be visible. Speak up. Act. #LGE2026 #AgendaForEngineering #ActivistEngineer