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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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REVIEW : Can the new government drive a sustainable infrastructure boom?

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The South African construction industry has experienced a prolonged downturn, with the fourth consecutive quarter of decline signaling an extended period of weakness. The industry faces numerous challenges, such as seasonal fluctuations, high capital costs, increased interest rates, and inefficiencies in local government approval processes for building plans, all contributing to the decline.

South Africa's construction and infrastructure sectors require substantial, long-lasting stimulus. Siseko Maposa, a director at Surgetower Associates, a management consultancy specializing in government, corporate, and foreign affairs, contemplates whether the new government can enact policies to promote sustainable infrastructure growth.

Maposa proposes that the new government should concentrate on striking a balance between public intervention and private involvement. This necessitates leadership that is constantly in tune with the economic climate. He emphasizes that a long-term boom can only be supported by a structure that balances public and private sector collaboration and builds investor confidence through stability and predictability.

Given the convergent center-right ideologies within the government, Maposa believes that the prospects for a public-private-led strategy appear promising. He suggests that this approach could lay the foundation for a sustainable infrastructure boom in South Africa.

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