#1 Infrastructure matters ARE engineering matters #2 Advocating for African Union's states to embrace Engineering & Engineers, and the future #EngineerGeneral
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South Africa’s constitutional architecture has a missing seat: independent engineering oversight. An Office of the Engineer-General can help fill that gap, strengthening accountability and ensuring infrastructure delivers for the people.
#ASeatAtTheTable #EngineerGeneral
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A dark traffic light is not a broken bulb. It is a broken system.
See a junction the way a control engineer does:
- a signal controller that needs clean, backed-up power
- detectors and cabling protected from theft and vandalism
- timing plans updated as traffic grows
- a maintenance plan signed off by a competent professional
Fail one, and the whole junction fails. Pedestrians, taxis, ambulances and learners pay the price.
Electronic, electrical, control and transport engineers, with technologists and technicians, make a safe crossing real every day. An independent Engineer-General would ask what no tender report asks: is the design right for our conditions, is maintenance funded, is the person in charge qualified?
Safe movement is part of a dignified life. Let us engineer it that way.
@ChangingthingsS @SuperEngineerZA #Ch9EngineerGeneral #EngineersForServiceDelivery #Jikizinto
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@PublicProtector, the water crisis is an engineering matter. Please bring qualified engineers into investigations where infrastructure and service delivery are at the heart of the problem. Ultimately, a Chapter 9 Engineer-General should provide independent engineering advice to the Public Protector. #LGE2026 #water #engineering
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JRA should organise an engineering hackathon to rethink traffic lights for our conditions: less resale value, stronger protection against vandalism and cheaper modular repairs. Involve SABS from the start. These repair costs warrant a serious design review.
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Agree with you but when you have those position, stop thinking you all alpha and omega. Just an advice
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Every pothole is a report card the road writes on itself.
It grades drainage, design and upkeep, honestly. Safe roads are a right engineers deliver. Let an Engineer-General read the marks before motorists do.
@ChangingthingsS @SuperEngineerZA #EngineerGeneralNow #Inframatters
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Media Statement: SAHRC Calls on the City of Tshwane to take Urgent Remedial Action to Address Water Crisis in Bronkhorstspruit and Affected Areas within Region 7 sahrc.org.za/index.php/sahrc…
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Don't ask when the lights return. Ask who signed off the substation maintenance plan.
A lit home is a right made real by competent electrical engineers. An Engineer-General would hold municipalities to sound asset care. @SAIEE, let us lead.
#EngineerGeneral #EngineeringForGood
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Clean water is a right only engineers can make real at the tap.
Dosing and testing are engineering duties. An Engineer-General would audit plant capacity before taps turn unsafe. Put professionals in every plant.
@ChangingthingsS @SuperEngineerZA #EngineerGeneral #HumanRights
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The 2026 MTBPS @Treasury_RSA speaks of “laying a new foundation for growth and development.”
We say: Let that foundation be engineered.
Give every municipality strong professional engineering leadership.
Protect engineering decisions from inappropriate political interference.
Create clear professional accountability for infrastructure outcomes.
And establish an independent Engineer-General capable of scrutinising whether public infrastructure investment is actually producing the quality outcomes South Africans were promised.
Treasury can allocate the money. @ParliamentofRSA can provide oversight. Municipal councils can set priorities. But turning budgets into functioning water systems, roads, electricity networks and other infrastructure ultimately requires competent engineering leadership and accountability.
#Engineering #technicians #technologists #engineers #CityEngineers
ALT Why leave engineers behind?
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@CityTshwane needs to strive towards continuous improvement in every department.
When chlorine runs out bells should ring and heads should roll ..
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More than 400 cases of gastrointestinal illness strengthen our call for an independent #EngineerGeneral as a #Chapter9Institution.
Such an office could empower citizens and stakeholders to hold @CityTshwane, @DWS_RSA, @GovernmentZA and engineering practitioners accountable for unsafe water, poor value for money, weak implementation and inappropriate engineering solutions.
#AgendaForEngineering
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People study engineering to manage critical infrastructure like the Bronkhorstspruit Water Treatment Works, to serve as City Engineers leading municipal service delivery, and to head water and sanitation departments and utilities.
@GovernmentZA - Put engineers where engineering decisions are made.
#WaterCrisis is avoidable. #AgendaForEngineering
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“You should have the privilege of being offended in life. Being offended is good, because it means one of two things: either you care deeply enough about what is being said, or something you have believed for a long time has been challenged.”
— @VusiThembekwayo
#Missing #EngineerGeneral
#sidelined #CityEngineers
#Politics #Engineering
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Engineers must also raise their hands, engage the media and society, and put forward practical solutions, including ring-fencing service delivery from political and other undue interference.
@ECSAOfficial engineering practitioners, CEOs and Boards of Voluntary Associations. #LGE2026
Political analysts have a voice. Economic analysts have a voice. Legal and election analysts have a voice. Engineering must have a voice too.
You cannot separate Municipal's infrastructure and service-delivery challenges from engineering. Let us bring #EngineersAtTheTable.
#Media #EngineeringAnalysts #InfrastructureAnalysts #EngineeringLeadership #ServiceDelivery #TheCaseForEngineering #LGE2026
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Political analysts have a voice. Economic analysts have a voice. Legal and election analysts have a voice. Engineering must have a voice too.
You cannot separate Municipal's infrastructure and service-delivery challenges from engineering. Let us bring #EngineersAtTheTable.
#Media #EngineeringAnalysts #InfrastructureAnalysts #EngineeringLeadership #ServiceDelivery #TheCaseForEngineering #LGE2026