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Engineers sue public works minister over ‘illegal appointments’
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) is concerned that SA’s standing in the International Engineering Alliance’s accords, which establish mutual recognition of qualifications between SA and other signatories, could be in jeopardy. It says the Engineering Council of SA (Ecsa) has been constituted illegally. Ecsa, a statutory body established in terms of the Engineering Profession Act, accredits engineering programmes, registers people as professionals in specified categories and regulates the practice of those registered people. SAICE CEO Manglin Pillay said that in 2016, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi was supposed to appoint 50 people to Ecsa’s new council, using a list approved by the former Ecsa council, a requirement of the act. The minister appointed other people in September from a different list that the old council had not approved, "creating an illegal council and threatening the integrity of South African engineers’ qualifications". Ecsa had refuse...
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