#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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political interference? 100%. procurement is designed to fail so tendas can be eaten. engineers are the last people to blame here
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When the bulk supply is turned down, the last house on the hill feels it first.
Water does not simply arrive. It is pumped, stored and pushed uphill by pressure. Restrict the supply and a network is tested at its weakest points: reservoirs that drain overnight, pumps that cannot keep up, leaks that waste what little arrives.
A mechanical engineer reads a dry tap as a pressure and storage problem, not only a supply problem. Civil, electrical and control engineers hold the other pieces of the same system.
Rand Water's restrictions on Johannesburg and Tshwane are that test, live:
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An Engineer-General would ask before the next one: does every metro have the qualified people and maintained assets to share water fairly to every home?
Water is a right. Engineers make it reach the tap.
@ChangingthingsS @SuperEngineerZA @DWS_RSA #EngineerGeneral #EngineersMakeOurFutureWork #HumanRights
Rand Water to restrict water supply to Johannesburg and Tshwane
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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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