RESOURCE PRODUCED BY CSIR BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY & CSIR ROADS AND TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY
RESOURCE PRODUCED BY CSIR BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY & CSIR ROADS AND TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY |
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The South African Association of Consulting Engineers (SAACE) commissioned CSIR Building and Construction Technology (Boutek) to prepare a strategy aimed at providing guidance to its members and clients about transformation within the consulting engineering profession. The resulting document sets out to explore broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) opportunities within the built environment professions (BEP) in South Africa and to develop a framework that can guide the BEP input into a broader construction industry transformation charter. Background The principle of empowering previously disadvantaged individuals was introduced in the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996, and promotes the adoption of steps to advance persons or categories of persons previously disadvantaged by unfair discrimination. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) recognised that democracy would have little content if it did not address the socio-economic problems within an expanding and growing economy. The five key programmes of the RDP included developing human resources and building the economy. The development of human resources recognised that all South Africans must be involved in the decision-making process, in implementation, the creation of new job opportunities requiring new skills, and in managing and governing our society, while the goals for building the economy included democratising the economy and the empowerment of the historically disadvantaged by encouraging broader participation in decisions about the economy, in both the private and public sectors. President Mbeki's address at the opening of Parliament in February 2003 referred to the tabling of an Empowerment Act and the establishment of a BEE Advisory Council. Included in the speech was the notion of 'charters'. In November 2003, the Minister of Public Works, Ms Stella Sigcau, announced that the Department of Public Works was refining a transformation framework that would culminate in a transformation charter for the construction industry in South Africa. The South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC) has also embarked on a process of preparing a charter for the construction industry, bearing in mind the Construction Sector Summit scheduled to take place in South Africa in mid-2004. In similar vein, SAACE commissioned CSIR Boutek to prepare a strategy aimed at providing guidance to its members and clients about transformation within the consulting engineering profession. Download the report in pdf format:
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