#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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Engineers & Society retweeted
BTech vs BEng vs BSc Eng should not distract us from the bigger question:
Who is competent, professionally accountable and capable of solving the engineering problem?
South Africa needs the full engineering team: technicians, technologists and engineers.
#AgendaForEngineering 🇿🇦
#Technicians #Technologists #Engineers
Engineers & Society retweeted
Dear @DepartmentPWI
How can we demand engineering leadership in municipalities, SOEs and infrastructure institutions if we do not demand it at the home of the engineering profession? The 7th Term ECSA Governing Council must lead by example. South Africa deserves professionally registered engineering leadership at the helm.
#EngineeringLeadership #CEO #ChiefEngineeringOfficer #CityEngineers #IMESA2026
Engineers & Society retweeted
Engineers study engineering to solve problems and turn plans into infrastructure that serves society. As nominations open for the Fourth National Planning Commission (2027–2032), the engineering profession cannot remain on the sidelines. Self-nomination is not permitted. Let us nominate engineers and ensure engineering is finally at the strategic decision-making table.
#AgendaForEngineering
#NationalPlanningCommission #CallForNominations #SouthAfrica #NationalDevelopmentPlan
📢 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS | NATIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
Help shape South Africa’s future. Nominate a suitably qualified and experienced individual to serve on the Fourth National Planning Commission for the five-year term 2027–2032.
The Commission will provide independent advice on South Africa’s development priorities and lead a participatory planning process towards a new long-term development plan beyond 2030.
Nominations are encouraged from across society, reflecting South Africa’s diversity of expertise, experience and perspectives.
📅 Nominations are open from 26 October to 26 November 2026.
For the nomination form, eligibility criteria and submission instructions, visit nationalplanningcommission.o… or scan the QR code in the advert.
Self-nomination is not permitted.
Please share this call with your networks.
#NationalPlanningCommission #CallForNominations #SouthAfrica #NationalDevelopmentPlan
Dear @DepartmentPWI
How can we demand engineering leadership in municipalities, SOEs and infrastructure institutions if we do not demand it at the home of the engineering profession? The 7th Term ECSA Governing Council must lead by example. South Africa deserves professionally registered engineering leadership at the helm.
#EngineeringLeadership #CEO #ChiefEngineeringOfficer #CityEngineers #IMESA2026
Engineers & Society retweeted
#AgendaForEngineering 🇿🇦
Infrastructure institutions should be led by people with the appropriate engineering competence, experience and professional accountability for the responsibilities they carry.
Engineering leadership must matter.
@ECSAOfficial @saice_civil @SAIEE @imesa_za @SAIMechE
Engineers & Society retweeted
Municipal infrastructure cannot be treated as ordinary administration.
Water. Sanitation. Roads. Electricity. Waste.
Technical leadership should be entrusted to appropriately qualified and competent engineers, technologists and technicians, with appropriate professional registration.
#AgendaForEngineering #LGE2026
#AgendaForEngineering #EngineeringVote #EngineeringInfluence on #LGE2026
Your vote can empower engineers, technicians and technologists to make Water. Sanitation. Roads. Electricity. a reality for all.
📢@ECSAOfficial engineering practitioners and supporters.
Want the #EngineeringVote? Show us how engineers will be empowered to shape South Africa’s future.
#AgendaForEngineering #LGE2026 #EngineeringTechnicians #EngineeringTechnologists
ALT #EngineeringVote 52 156 +
#AgendaForEngineering #EngineeringVote #EngineeringInfluence on #LGE2026
@MYANC @Our_DA @EFFSouthAfrica @IFP_National @UDmRevolution @Action4SA @MkhontoweSizwex @OnsBaizaNie @VFPlus @Rise_Mzansi @ForGoodZA @BuildOneSA
What will your party do for South Africa’s engineering profession and infrastructure?
Engineers, technologists and technicians are voters too.
Which political party has earned the #EngineeringVote?
Engineers & Society retweeted
Most service failures are scheduled. Nobody just wrote them on the calendar.
An industrial engineer reads a municipality like a production line. Every pump, valve, transformer and fleet vehicle has a working life, a failure pattern and a service interval. Ignore them and the breakdown arrives right on time.
Before: fix it when it breaks, buy spares in a panic, residents wait for days.
After: a current asset register, planned maintenance budgeted yearly, spares on the shelf, response times published.
That takes planning, done by technicians, technologists and engineers who are allowed to plan.
An Engineer-General could check that municipalities keep real maintenance plans and report on them in public. Water and power are rights, and maintenance is how engineers keep them working.
Councillors, ask your technical team one question this week: show me the maintenance plan.
@ChangingthingsS @SuperEngineerZA @SALGA_Gov #EngineerGeneralNow #ProfessionaliseTheState #PublicGood
Engineering practitioners potentially influence a wider voting community of over 300,000 people. Add that to the profession itself and we could be talking about a potential 350,000-vote constituency.
@waynesussman, if “Engineering” were a political party concentrated in our metros, what could 350,000 votes achieve? Could that voting bloc hold the balance of power and influence the formation of coalition governments? #EngineeringVote #LGE2026
52,156 engineering practitioners are registered on the @ECSAOfficial database. All things being equal, that’s potentially 52,156 votes for engineering. Let’s make the #EngineeringVote count.
#LGE2026
Engineers & Society retweeted
political interference? 100%. procurement is designed to fail so tendas can be eaten. engineers are the last people to blame here
#EngineeringSlogans
"To be a global leader in engineering regulation, aspiring to professional excellence, sustainability and to assuring public safety within the engineering context."
~ @ECSAOfficial
Engineers & Society retweeted
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:
nitter.cf/mailandguardian/status…
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
mg.co.za/the-green-guardian/…
Engineers & Society retweeted
📢 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS | NATIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
Help shape South Africa’s future. Nominate a suitably qualified and experienced individual to serve on the Fourth National Planning Commission for the five-year term 2027–2032.
The Commission will provide independent advice on South Africa’s development priorities and lead a participatory planning process towards a new long-term development plan beyond 2030.
Nominations are encouraged from across society, reflecting South Africa’s diversity of expertise, experience and perspectives.
📅 Nominations are open from 26 October to 26 November 2026.
For the nomination form, eligibility criteria and submission instructions, visit nationalplanningcommission.o… or scan the QR code in the advert.
Self-nomination is not permitted.
Please share this call with your networks.
#NationalPlanningCommission #CallForNominations #SouthAfrica #NationalDevelopmentPlan
Engineers study engineering to solve problems and turn plans into infrastructure that serves society. As nominations open for the Fourth National Planning Commission (2027–2032), the engineering profession cannot remain on the sidelines. Self-nomination is not permitted. Let us nominate engineers and ensure engineering is finally at the strategic decision-making table.
#AgendaForEngineering
#NationalPlanningCommission #CallForNominations #SouthAfrica #NationalDevelopmentPlan
📢 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS | NATIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
Help shape South Africa’s future. Nominate a suitably qualified and experienced individual to serve on the Fourth National Planning Commission for the five-year term 2027–2032.
The Commission will provide independent advice on South Africa’s development priorities and lead a participatory planning process towards a new long-term development plan beyond 2030.
Nominations are encouraged from across society, reflecting South Africa’s diversity of expertise, experience and perspectives.
📅 Nominations are open from 26 October to 26 November 2026.
For the nomination form, eligibility criteria and submission instructions, visit nationalplanningcommission.o… or scan the QR code in the advert.
Self-nomination is not permitted.
Please share this call with your networks.
#NationalPlanningCommission #CallForNominations #SouthAfrica #NationalDevelopmentPlan
Engineers & Society retweeted
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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