Formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, yet rampant inequality remains a salient feature of South African society. Poor leadership, corruption, and cadre deployment are often cited as the reasons for the ANC’s failure to make progress in that regard. While one can acknowledge these factors, one legacy of apartheid that is often overlooked is its spatial legacy. Civil engineering may be value-neutral in theory, but those who design the plans are rarely free from ideology. In this episode of The TK Show, civil engineer and former public servant, Gundo Maswime, joins TK to discuss the lasting effects of infrastructure designed by the previous regime, the need to get more civil engineers to join the public sector, and the importance of preparing the next generation of civil engineers to understand the socio-political context in which they operate.
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TK Pooe (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Witwatersrand School of Governance; his main fields of research are Public Policy themes such as Local Economic Development, Law and Development, Scenario Planning and Thinking, and Failure Analysis. Over the last ten years, he has lectured and consulted for various institutions like the North-West University’s Government Studies Programme, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria) and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Before joining academia, he worked in various government institutions as a Public Policy research consultant.
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Gundo Vhusani Maswime graduated with a B.Sc. Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Social Science Honours in Public Policy before completing an MPA (Public Infrastructure Management) with the University of Pretoria. He worked as a consulting engineer designing and supervising building and civil projects. He completed a diploma in Project Management, and a certificate in public procurement before joining the public sector. After 10 years in the public sector, he left an executive director position to commence his PhD in Civil Engineering with the University of Cape Town. He was recently appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Civil engineering where he is also conducting research in public infrastructure policy framework focusing on planning, procurement, contract management, program management and maintenance management.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GMaswime
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