The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
Count |
Year |
Description |
383 |
2000 |
Professional Engineer |
131 |
2000 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
377 |
2001 |
Professional Engineer |
140 |
2001 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
283 |
2002 |
Professional Engineer |
179 |
2002 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
313 |
2003 |
Professional Engineer |
207 |
2003 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
370 |
2004 |
Professional Engineer |
166 |
2004 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
324 |
2005 |
Professional Engineer |
135 |
2005 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
324 |
2006 |
Professional Engineer |
212 |
2006 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
342 |
2007 |
Professional Engineer |
162 |
2007 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
422 |
2008 |
Professional Engineer |
313 |
2008 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
416 |
2009 |
Professional Engineer |
304 |
2009 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
473 |
2010 |
Professional Engineer |
301 |
2010 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
529 |
2011 |
Professional Engineer |
372 |
2011 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
662 |
2012 |
Professional Engineer |
436 |
2012 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
775 |
2013 |
Professional Engineer |
420 |
2013 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
548 |
2014 |
Professional Engineer |
410 |
2014 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
516 |
2015 |
Professional Engineer |
398 |
2015 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
932 |
2016 |
Professional Engineer |
346 |
2016 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
466 |
2017 |
Professional Engineer |
271 |
2017 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
882 |
2018 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
586 |
2019 |
Professional Engineering Technologist |
(3) There are no registration requirements for practising as an Engineer. ECSA is only required to keep a record of Registered Persons. Section 18(2) of the Engineering Profession Act, (Act No. 46 of 2000) (the EPA) prohibits by criminal sanction a person from practising in a category without being registered in that category. Section 26 (4) of the EPA allows an unregistered person to “perform identified engineering work in the service of or by order of and under the direction, control, supervision of or in association with a registered person entitled to perform the identified work and who must assume responsibility for any work so performed.’’ The legislation distinguishes between a person practising and a person performing work under the auspices or in association with a registered person. The ideal situation is that all practitioners should be registered to ensure continuous professional development (CPD) and adherence to the code of professional conduct.
(4) Currently we cannot provide figures for State-owned entities. Nevertheless, we can provide figures for the public works sector as outlined below. The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has established the Professional Services Branch, which is mandated to manage technical capacity building programmes that are regarded as key enablers towards creating a pool of technical skills to build a reliable supply of professionals and skilled workers, which will address the gap that currently in the built environment for the State.
The Branch focuses on the following key objectives:
(i) To develop a plan to restore the Skills Pipeline in the Built Environment Sector targeting identified areas of skills shortages within the State;
(ii) Professionalisation of the Built Environment (including Construction and Property Management);
(iii) Building State technical capacity focusing on the built environment and infrastructure
The branch has started to operationalize by piloting a programme through the provincial Public Works departments. The intention is to upscale the programme to cover all organs of State responsible for infrastructure delivery. To this end, the Public Works Capacity Building Forum was established to identify the root causes of capacity constraints and develop capacity building strategies customized for the Public Works Family.
The figures for professionals are currently employed in in the Public Works Sector are as follows:
PUBLIC WORKS SECTOR BASELINE INFORMATION |
|
Candidates |
731 |
Professionals |
563 |
Unregistered |
314 |
Total |
1608 |
Please refer to Annexure 1 for more details on the technical skills areas which these individuals are qualified in, disaggregated into the various provincial departments where they are employed.