Nxesi awards bursaries in effort to clean 'corrupt' public works, build capacity
Minister of Public Works Thulas Nxesi’s department has awarded 40 bursaries in 2017 as part of its ongoing schools programme and seven-year plan to rebuild the department, which in the past was mired in corruption. Nxesi conceded at a bursary awarding ceremony held at St George Hotel in Irene last Friday that, “had we had an adequate complement of professional and technical staff — such as qualified project managers, quantity surveyors and engineers — then we would have avoided most of the irregularities that we witnessed all too often in the past”. The programme started in 2013, which has resulted in the department adopting 16 high schools dotted across all nine provinces. The model for the programme was adapted from the Council for the Built Environment’s skills pipeline strategy. The Department of Public Works has partnered with Unisa, the University of Pretoria, the Outlook Foundation and the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement to execute the programm...
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