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In economics, a commodity is a marketable item live and socialise that this process of eradicating
produced to satisfy wants and needs. injustices, healing the divisions, improving the quality
of life and where democracy social justice and human
Engineering and construction work is a provision
rights, becomes concrete and meaningful in the lives
of a combination of goods and services arranged
of South Africans.
for the development and provision of an asset or
refurbishment of an existing asset, including building CESA welcomed the call made by the Minister to
and engineering infrastructure. Thela stated that establish an Advisory Committee of eminent persons
consulting engineers provide independent advice drawn from various sectors, including civil society
to clients, offer technical advice in the procurement to advise him on issues arising in the procurement
of contractors as well as design and supervision of system within local government, as well as on how to
construction work. increase integrity and the value system in this sphere
of the public sector.
CESA warns unscrupulous and

unqualified contractors and Engineering industry can
corrupt officials change the landscape of the
country avers Mokonyane
CESA was appalled by the pressure put on our
members to certify payment for work not done and The Department of Water and Sanitation Minister
will not bow to pressure from greedy, unscrupulous Nomvula Mokonyane made a impassioned plea and
and unqualified contractors and corrupt officials. a clarion call for consulting engineers to partner with
We are concerned and as an organisation that government and to perform their duty with integrity
represents this invaluable profession which is and improve the quality of life of the people for a
the backbone of quality infrastructure, we cannot better life for all.
accept this despicable behaviour and conduct to
We represent a new department informed by
continue unchallenged, stated CESA CEO Lefadi
the National Development Plan. Government is
Makibinyane.
repositioning water and sanitation post 20 years of
He cautioned that CESA will not allow these bad democracy, owing to service delivery challenges.
elements to hold the profession to ransom or deter We require your radical contributions to deliver
our members from practising their profession. Their water and sanitation solutions to our people. You are
actions are denying our people a better life through game changers and help us to make a difference
the delivery of basic services and critical infrastructure in the lives of our people by delivering services to
underpinning economic growth and job creation. some of our people, who have become observers
of service delivery but not beneficiaries,” urged
Mokonyane at the Consulting Engineers South
CESA supports Gordhan’s bold Africa’s (CESA) prestigious CESA Aon Engineering
move to lead municipalities Excellence Awards held at Vodacom World in
Midrand on Tuesday, 12th August 2014. An event
back to basics that started by CESA in 1972 in order to spur and

recognize consulting engineering member firms
CESA welcomed the bold move to lead municipalities
for their invaluable infrastructure projects designs
back to basics and to put in place institutional
and innovative engineering encouraged by their
mechanisms to enable them to deliver core municipal
professional purpose to improve the quality of life of
services as announced by Cooperative Governance
civil society.
and Traditional Affairs Minister (CoGTA), Pravin
Gordhan.
CoGTA has a responsibility to build a system of local
governance, within the three spheres of government Dennis Ndaba
as set out in the Constitution. Gordhan added Manager: Strategic Communications
that building such a system is a long term project; CESA Annual Review 2013 / 2014
however, the ministry is also tasked with dealing
with immediate operational difficulties within local
government.

“It is in the municipal areas in which citizens work,

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