{"id":162269,"date":"2017-03-06T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=162269"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:36:08","slug":"new-bee-regulations-are-putting-south-africans-lives-at-risk-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/162269\/new-bee-regulations-are-putting-south-africans-lives-at-risk-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New BEE regulations are putting South Africans&#8217; lives at risk: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Fourteen separate organisations representing the engineering industry are taking government to court to try\u00a0ensure infrastructure construction standards are not weakened, following the introduction of new transformation regulations in the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">According to a report by Times Live, the parties are alleging there are several irregularities in the appointment of ECSA\u2019s current 50-person council, which was appointed by Works Minister Thulas Nxesi in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE)\u201a who is leading the legal action on behalf of 14 engineering associations and their 50\u201a000-plus membership, said the appointments were made without the required consultation<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">\u201cBy undermining the quality of oversight of engineering practitioners in South Africa\u201a the entire pipeline of engineering infrastructure services\u201a manufacturing and production will be at risk\u201a\u201d said SAICE CEO Manglin Pillay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related\">\u00a0\u201cThis could potentially result in the health and safety of the public being placed in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"related\">The parties are also concerned about the possible loss of international accreditation as as peer review is a prerequisite for South Africa retaining its recognition by the International Engineering Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related\">\u201cIf we lose our international accreditation\u201a this will mean that South Africans may not in future be allowed to study postgraduate programmes internationally\u201a or even practise engineering internationally\u201a\u201d said a leading professor and Dean of Engineering\u201a who wished to remain anonymous\u201a according to SAICE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related\">\u201cWe are also worried about our own university\u2019s good standing in relation to engineering programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"related\"><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/161817\/zuma-wants-to-change-the-constitution-to-take-land-without-compensation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zuma wants to change the constitution to take land without compensation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 engineering organisations representing over 50,000 engineers are taking government to court as new BEE laws threaten to undermine construction standards across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":127505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-162269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162269"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162303,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162269\/revisions\/162303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}