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Employers cause 'perceptions' of engineer shortages, Umgeni CE says

According to BDlive, Cyril Gamede, the new CE of Umgeni Water, says there are enough engineers in South Africa and perceptions of shortages have arisen because employers do not want to train up newly qualified engineers.

17 Sep 2012

Umgeni supplies water mainly to eThekwini municipality, as well as to the north and south KwaZulu-Natal coastal regions and to Msunduzi municipality.

About a third the size of South Africa's biggest water utility, Rand Water, Umgeni runs a programme that helps newly qualified engineers to gain experience as they work on the utility's capital projects, says BDlive

Umgeni plans to spend about R4.4bn on capital projects over the next five years, about R2.1bn of which will go towards bulk rural systems, and the utility will get as much grant funding as it can for rural areas infrastructure, reports BDlive

Read the full article on www.bdlive.co.za