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Dear Engineers ...

The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing Development
Honorable Eric Mothibi Molale

• Industry is faced by a plethora of challenges and among these are abandoned projects and
delivery of substandard engineering work.

he Engineers Forum 2022 The Minister of Infrastructure and He started his opening remarks with
has made a comeback after Housing Development who is also a an obvious salutation to those present
Tan involuntary hiatus caused Member of Parliament for Goodhope- and acknowledged the engineers
by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Mabule constituency, Honourable in attendance. Minister Molale was
The event is the 2nd offering, and Eric Mothibi Molale gave the keynote grateful to ERB for hosting such a
it is hailed as bigger and better by address. He spoke mostly on corruption much-needed event, as the Host has
those who attended. Engineers who and touched base on some vital topics of since acquired recommendations
attended applauded the organizers skills mismatch between the industry and from the first instalment of the event.
and the presentation of the event as the tertiary or vocational skills training. “ The theme for this forum, which
a whole. The Engineering Forum ran The minister also took time to expand on is: Creative Engineering Value Chain
from the 1st to 4th March 2022 under substandard work from the engineering – Advancing towards Industry 4.0,
the theme “Creative Engineering Value sector and that this issue was really could not be more appropriate. It
Chain-Advancing towards Industry 4.0” draining resources from the country. resonates well with the Government 8

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