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New fundraising campaign for WASSUP
The team at WASSUP Diepsloot is launching a
creative new fundraising campaign to support the
ongoing repair and maintenance of communal
toilets, taps and drains across Diepsloot
Extension 1, called #AdoptAToilet.
Since 2007 the WASSUP (Water Amenities Sanitation
Services Upgrading Programme) team of community
plumbers have worked to repair and maintain communal
toilets, taps and drains in Extension 1 of the Diepsloot
township. This programme brings working toilets to
residents, trains residents as community plumbers and
generally provides some dignity to people using toilets.
Through ongoing monitoring, the project has demonstrated
enormous water savings and is proven as a workable and
scalable programme for human settlements.
Research has proven that repairing and maintaining
one toilet saves 4 000 litres of water per day. Under
this international initiative USD100 “makes you a
#ProudToiletParent for 1 toilet for 1 year, provides
working ablutions for 39 households, saving 1.4 million
litres of water”.
In turn, the IWSH Foundation launched from 3 December a
Facebook Fundraiser for #GivingTuesday for #AdoptAToilet,
while giving the campaign further promotion through
its various print and online channels in its role of
‘international partner’ – based on IWSH’s Community
Plumbing Challenge collaboration of a few years ago.
Plumbers busy assisting WASSUP on this year’s Mandela Day.
WASSUP has established solid partnerships and colleagues
who support their work with materials and networks,
however the team still needs cash, so we welcome you to
our new adopt-a-toilet campaign. Adopting a toilet has the
double benefit of not only providing good sanitation systems
to local residents, it also contributes towards saving water, a
precious resource.
You can find out more about the campaign at:
http://stickysituations.org/wassup.diepsloot.html PA
IOPSA contribution to Construction
Sector Charter Council
The Construction Sector Charter Council (CSCC)
is an executive authority responsible for the
overseeing and monitoring of the implementation
of the Construction Sector Codes (CSC) of Good
Practice, which is the legal and mandatory
empowerment measurement tool for the
construction industry.
The CSCC was created as a result of the gazetting of the
Construction Sector Codes (CSC) on the 5th of June 2009
by the Minister of Trade and Industry in terms of Section 9
(1) of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act
53 0f 2003 (The B-BBEE Act) before it was amended by
the B-BBEE amendment act of 2013.
The aim of the Charter Council is to monitor adherence to
transformation targets.
January 2020 Volume 25 I Number 11
In the original Charters, the Department of Trade and Industry
excluded ‘trades’ from its definition of professionals. IOPSA
has made presentations to the Charter Council that this
should be changed so that a plumber, for instance, is included
as a professional. This has become even more relevant since
the initial transformation policy was devised, as it now has
the Plumbing Industry Registration Body, the professional
organisation of the plumbing industry which maintains the
professionalism of the industry and ensures all qualified
plumbers keep up-to-date with professional changes.
This was a blind-spot by the DTI authors of the B-BBEE
Amended Codes of Good Practice, the policy on
transformation. The last amendments were done in
December 2017. They get reviewed every few years and
the understanding is that they will again be reviewed in
2020. IOPSA is consequently making recommendations
that the plumbing profession fall within the scope of the
next generation of B-BBEE regulations sector codes. PA
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