{"id":17423,"date":"2013-09-10T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=17423"},"modified":"2013-09-10T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T08:18:23","slug":"sa-gaan-kuba-se-hulp-inroep-om-waterkrisis-op-te-los","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=17423","title":{"rendered":"SA gaan Kuba se hulp inroep om waterkrisis op te los"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"South Africa is looking to Cuba - a country with its own urban water problems - for engineers and geo-hydrologists to help it tackle its looming water infrastructure crisis.\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watersa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17424\" alt=\"watersa\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watersa-300x210.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watersa-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watersa.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Suid-Afrika gaan Kuba se hulp inroep &#8211; &#8216;n land met sy eie stedelike water probleme &#8211; vir ingenieurs en geo-hidrolo\u00eb om te help met ons dreigende waterinfrastruktuurkrisis.<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"Print\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa last night signed an agreement with her Cuban counterpart, Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, at OR Tambo International Airport, intended to pave the way for the recruitment of 34 Cuban engineers on two-year contracts from early next year.\">Die minister van waterwese, Edna Molewa het Maandagaand &#8216;n ooreenkoms onderteken met haar Kubaanse eweknie, Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, by die OR Tambo Internasionale Lughawe, wat bedoel is om die weg vir die werwing van 34 Kubaanse ingenieurs op tweejaarkontrakte van vroeg volgende jaar af, voor te berei .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"This is part of a wide-ranging recruitment drive by the department to find skilled professionals to deal with South Africa's water problems.\">Dit is deel van &#8216;n wye werwingsveldtog deur die departement om geskoolde lui te vind om Suid-Afrika se water probleme op te los.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"&quot;We have already signed up the first batch of six engineers and they will be arriving early next year,&quot; said the department's spokesman, Themba Khumalo.\">&#8220;Ons het reeds die eerste groep van ses ingenieurs en hulle sal vroeg volgende jaar aankom, &#8221; het die departement se woordvoerder, Themba Khumalo ges\u00ea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"&quot;We are busy with the recruitment of the second batch of 13 engineers and [are planning to recruit] a third batch of 15,&quot; he said.\">&#8220;Ons is besig met die werwing van die tweede groep van 13 ingenieurs en [die werwing van] &#8216;n derde groep van 15 ,&#8221; het hy ges\u00ea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"He said the agreement was one of many to be signed with a number of countries in a bid to deal with the water crisis.\">Hy het ges\u00ea die ooreenkoms is een van die vele wat onderteken moet word met &#8216;n aantal lande in &#8216;n poging om die waterkrisis op te los.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Dr Anthony Turton, an independent scientist specialising in water services, said that to import Cuban engineers to deal with the crisis was &quot;skew, foolish and ill thought through&quot;.\">Dr Anthony Turton, &#8216;n onafhanklike wetenskaplike wat spesialiseer in waterdienste, het ges\u00ea om Kubaanse ingenieurs in te voer is &#8220;oningeligte, dwase en &#8216;n swakdeurdagte plan&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"&quot;You are saying to the South African engineer that you are not useful to our society,&quot; he said.\">&#8220;Jy s\u00ea vir die Suid-Afrikaanse ingenieur dat jy nie nuttig in ons samelewing is nie,&#8221; het hy ges\u00ea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Turton said South Africa had enough skilled professionals to deal with the water crisis but that white engineers had been &quot;pushed out&quot; of the public sector and were working as private contractors, selling their skills back to the state at &quot;four or five times as much\">Turton het ges\u00ea Suid-Afrika het genoeg geskoolde lui om die waterkrisis op te los, maar wit ingenieurs word uitgestoot&#8221; uit die openbare sektor en werk as private kontrakteurs, wat hul vaardighede vir &#8220;vier of vyf keer soveel<\/span><span title=\"&quot; as they would have earned in its employ.\">&#8221; aan die staat verkoop as wat dit sou gekos het om hulle in diens te neem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"&quot;Transformation means you can't get the achieving people to stay in the public sector. They get sucked into jobs as consultants and the underachievers keep their positions in the bureaucracy,&quot; Turton said.\">&#8220;Transformasie beteken [&#8230;] die onderpresteerders hou hul posisies in die burokrasie, &#8221; het Turton ges\u00ea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"&quot;It is not that there are no great black professionals coming through. It is just that they are also snapped up by private companies as consultants.&quot;\">Daar is nie &#8216;n noemenswaardige swart professionele lui wat deurkom nie. Hulle word ook dadelik opgeraap deur private maatskappye as konsultante.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"South Africa is at present losing 36.8% of its water through bad infrastructure management, mainly the result of an extreme shortage of skilled water professionals.\">Suid-Afrika verloor 36,8 % van sy water<\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"South Africa is at present losing 36.8% of its water through bad infrastructure management, mainly the result of an extreme shortage of skilled water professionals.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"South Africa is at present losing 36.8% of its water through bad infrastructure management, mainly the result of an extreme shortage of skilled water professionals.\"> op die oomblik <\/span><\/span>deur slegte infrastruktuurbestuur, hoofsaaklik die gevolg van &#8216;n groot tekort aan geskoolde professionele lui. <\/span><span title=\"The wastage costs the country more than R11-billion a year.\">Die vermorsing van kos die land meer as R11 miljard per jaar .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"The department's national water resource strategy, published in July, shows that South Africa needs about 3000 engineers and, about 7200 health and hygiene, or environmental health, practitioners in the medium term.\">Die departement se Nasionale Waterhulpbronstrategie toon dat Suid-Afrika ongeveer 3000 ingenieurs benodig en sowat 7200 omgewingsgesondheidpraktisyns in die medium termyn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Cuba has massive water problems.\">Kuba het massiewe waterprobleme. <\/span><span title=\"According to the Canadian International Development Research Centre, its water and sanitation services have deteriorated badly, resulting in an increase in water-borne diseases.\">Volgens die Kanadese Internasionale Ontwikkelingsnavorsingsentrum, het sy water en sanitasiedienste so agteruitgegaan dat dit tot &#8216;n groot styging in wateroordraagbare siektes gelei het. .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Khumalo said the Cubans had an important role to play because South African engineers and hydrologists did not want to work in rural areas.\">Khumalo het ges\u00ea die Kubane het &#8216;n belangrike rol om te speel, want Suid-Afrikaanse ingenieurs en hidrolo\u00eb nie werk in landelike gebiede nie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"He said the Cuban engineers would be deployed in rural and disadvantaged areas, and would:\">Hy het ges\u00ea die Kubaanse ingenieurs sal ontplooi word in landelike en agtergeblewe gebiede. &#8211; timeslive.co.za <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suid-Afrika gaan Kuba se hulp inroep &#8211; &#8216;n land met sy eie stedelike water probleme &#8211; vir ingenieurs en geo-hidrolo\u00eb om te help met ons dreigende waterinfrastruktuurkrisis. Die minister van waterwese, Edna Molewa het Maandagaand &#8216;n ooreenkoms onderteken met haar Kubaanse eweknie, Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, by die OR Tambo Internasionale Lughawe, wat bedoel is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=17423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SA gaan Kuba se hulp inroep om waterkrisis op te los&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,51],"tags":[12470,12468,12471,12467,12466,12472,12469,12474,12475,2242,4835,8731,12473],"class_list":["post-17423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuus","category-suider-afrika","tag-edna-molewa","tag-geo-hidroloe","tag-ines-maria-chapman-waugh","tag-ingenieurs","tag-kuba","tag-kubaanse-ingenieurs","tag-minister-van-waterwese","tag-openbare-sektor","tag-slegte-infrastruktuurbestuur","tag-suid-afrika","tag-transformasie","tag-waterkrisis","tag-wit-ingenieurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}