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PROFILE : My journey to Professional Registration - Innocent Gininda

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Innocent Gininda shares his journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng), emphasizing the importance of mentorship, early preparation, and understanding ECSA requirements. He offers advice to aspiring PrEngs, highlighting the value of diverse feedback and a positive mindset. My journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng) culminated successfully in November 2024. I was fortunate to begin my career at a company with a Commitment and Undertaking (C&U) Agreement with ECSA and a robust mentorship program. This commitment to training engineers to the standard required for Professional Registration provided me with essential resources and a structured path to track my experience against ECSA requirements. Early exposure to these expectations instilled a positive outlook on registration and solidified my desire to achieve this milestone. My views on Professional Registration have remained consistently positive throughout this journey. Working alongside ...
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NEWS: Is water poised to become the next major infrastructure crisis unfolding before our eyes?

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Our preoccupation with Eskom and logistics has overshadowed the importance of water, which could pose a more significant threat than electricity and Transnet. Water is essential for sustaining life.The absence of water in the country's economic center will have dire consequences. Without water, industries will be unable to operate, leading to a standstill in the production of goods and services.


Johannesburg's water and sanitation infrastructure is in dire straits due to insufficient funding, resulting in increased infrastructure failure, financial losses, and dissatisfied consumers. The city's water company, Johannesburg Water, has an infrastructure portfolio that has lost 59% of its value, with a backlog of R24 billion in assets that have reached the end of their useful lifespan. This is because authorities have failed to meet the mandated annual infrastructure renewal rate of 2%. 

The company should ideally set aside around R2 billion each year for pipe replacements and sewer pipe upgrades to hit the 1.5% asset renewal target, but budget constraints have kept it from doing so. The current expenditure pattern indicates that an average renewal rate of 1% has been achieved. Water authorities warn that this backlog holds back economic growth and development. Econometrix chief economist Azar Jammine blames mismanagement and diversion of resources by the City of Johannesburg. The company has only set aside a meager R7.3 billion for infrastructure renewal in the next five years, far short of the R64 billion needed over the next decade. The region is already experiencing devastating water shortages, and the situation will likely worsen without timely intervention.

Are we witnessing a looming infrastructure crisis centered around water?


The full hardhatNEWS article was published on 2Oceansvibe

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