Civil engineering fraternity expresses concern over state of South Africa’s infrastructure

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INFRASTRUCTURE In its latest Infrastructure Report Card, the third in a series (the previous report cards were published in 2006 and 2011), SAICE awarded South Africa’s public infrastructure an overall grade of D+. According to the compilers of the publication, this overall grade indicates that South African infrastructure is generally at risk. “This grade reflect an ongoing and unchanged norm of poor maintenance and insufficient engineering capacity in the public sector, as commented on in both the 2006 and 2011 report cards,” note the compilers, which included Malcolm Pautz, Kevin Wall and Sam Amod. Previous Infrastructure Report Cards discussed the severe impact of South Africa’s poor application of systems, maintenance practices and the engineering skills shortage in government. Unfortunately, these problems remain as serious today.

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