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Plumbing Africa
Is it, or isn’ t it?
This rather obscure headline reflects much of the content in this issue. It is good content with a probing nature, with our role players in industry creating more questions than answers.
This in itself is not a bad thing, but when the South African Institution of Civil Engineering CEO raised the thorny issue of imported engineers, we went out to industry leaders for their comments. Local engineers are unable to find jobs while being suitably qualified and the country does have exchange arrangements with other countries, but where is the balance? Surely, our local engineers must take precedence over exchange programmes, or does exchange mean that we are sending our engineers to these countries as part of the programme? It would be a great opportunity for our youngsters. But, as government is the worst communicator around, we never hear about it. The Department of Water and Sanitation never refers to an exchange programme when questioned about bringing in the likes of Cubans and Italians, but respond thus,“ there are no engineers in South Africa willing to work for the department.” Really?
We will continue tackling this issue as it affects three of our group’ s publications, namely, Plumbing Africa, Civil Engineering Contractor and Water, Sewage & Effluent. moved to Water, Sewage & Effluent where his contribution is more relevant.
Remember, we are in the water space and although the plumber’ s work is at the end of the water road, its function is the most critical because good plumbing by qualified plumbers saves water. So continue being proud plumbers. PA
Rory
Rory Macnamara
This issue we have the contributors covering a wide range of topics and we continue with the National Water Resource Strategy( NWRS) document. Helgard Muller’ s column has
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