South Africa already faces a deep engineering crisis – but the rapidly changing power landscape means we need even rarer skills that educational institutes are not yet equipped to deliver.
South Africa’s unique brand of energy crisis – and the measures being taken to address it – requires an entirely new set of engineering skills, which are not yet specialisations at colleges or universities.– are going to be needed at a large scale very soon, according to experts, leaving the country’s already dire engineering crisis in a much more precarious position.
However, Mashatile noted that engineering education has encountered numerous formidable challenges that have hindered its progress and development. These challenges encompass a wide range of issues, including but not limited to insufficient funding and resources in quantity and quality. “Institutional meltdown and dysfunctionality over the last two decades in South Africa have been the primary driver of the loss of engineering talent – because talented people, no matter how much you pay them, simply refuse to be part of something dysfunctional,” he said.
According to the Engineering Council of South Africa , the country has one engineer for every 3,100 people, compared to Germany, which has one engineer for every 200 people.“Therefore, South Africa needs to produce ten times more engineers to compete favourably with developed economies,” according to the ECSA.
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