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During the year we were bold enough to challenge and change

the status quo in order to ensure that CESA was positioned to
respond to current and future challenges. Ongoing strategic
review was an important part of this process.

consulting engineering profession is not transforming position paper for the first item to establish a Project
at the rate that Government is expecting. I Development Facilitation & Monitoring Agency as
explained that we are in a highly specialised an operational arm of the Presidential Infrastructure
profession that can only be transformed through Coordination Committee (PICC). CESA sees this
education and our Young Professionals are showing as the most critical requirement in order to enhance
representation in terms of the demographics with visibility of infrastructure projects in line with the NDP
positive transformation prospects. She advised and the NIP. We are making a case for this to be
me to look at the Transformation Model adopted a Public Private Partnership structure composed of
by the Accounting Profession to qualify graduate 50-50% (Public/Private) at the Board level where
accountants into Chartered Accountants. We agreed Private is represented by business through Business
on the establishment of a task team/committee in Associations. Transparency is the main objective
collaboration with the CBE, ECSA and the Department and we hope that it will boost Business/Investor
of Water Affairs Infrastructure Project Unit so that as confidence towards Government’s Infrastructure
CESA we can share our suite of practices towards Build Programme as detailed in the NDP and the NIP
supporting SMME’s and Transformation including through the Strategic Integrated Programmes.
Procurement Practices.
On the second item, CESA issued a position
I was appointed as a Board member of the cidb paper with the objective of bringing the necessary
during the period under review. This augurs well for amendments to the PPPFA legislation where Quality
our industry as I will be putting a proposal forward that Based Selection plus BBBEE takes precedence
prohibits the registration of companies by individuals, over price when procuring consulting engineering
who are not engineers but play in our space. The services.
result is that it continues to distort our market and
CESA attended an urgent Water and Sanitation
damage our noble profession in terms of designing
Summit called upon by the Minister of Water and
quality structures that stand the test of time.
Sanitation, Ms Nomvula Mokonyane on Friday and
The Presidential/Business Bilateral Inclusive Growth Saturday (1st - 2nd August 2014). CESA participated
Task Team on Infrastructure met for the second time in various commissions which were established for
in 2014 to continue the preparations towards the next the effective delivery of the Summit. A consolidated
and third meeting with the State President and his report from the Department is awaited and once
Cabinet Ministers after the 2014 general elections. received will be forwarded to all CESA Mandated
The meeting was held on the 10th April 2014 and Principals.
CESA spearheaded the following two of the eight
On the 11th- 12th August 2014, the YPF Imbizo
Infrastructure related goals:
was held at the same venue as the CESA Council
Create early visibility of Government’s meeting, and took place at the Premier Hotel in
infrastructure build programme to ensure private Kempton Park. Great interaction took place between
sector is able to respond to the opportunities the young engineers and Council members during CESA Annual Review 2013 / 2014
the plenary discussion around ‘Advocacy’.
Strengthen / optimise infrastructure procurement
system The CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards
maintained the same high standard set in previous
As part of the Infrastructure Task Team, I submitted a
years and this year was attended by some prominent

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