Abstract
Decolonising engineering in South Africa – Experience to date and some emerging challenges
Highlights
The cases In Cape Town, the focus was on the self-styled ‘water crisis’ whose origin and characterisation, it is suggested, is linked to the continued influence of European approaches inappropriate to African challenges
The question in Port Elizabeth was whether a decolonised future will be characterised by new elites capturing the privileges of their predecessors? – the neo-colonialism described by writers such as Frantz Fanon[5]
In Johannesburg, government has put the city at risk of a water crisis by delaying investments in water security to support ‘transformation’
Summary
In Cape Town, the focus was on the self-styled ‘water crisis’ whose origin and characterisation, it is suggested, is linked to the continued influence of European approaches inappropriate to African challenges. The question in Port Elizabeth was whether a decolonised future will be characterised by new elites capturing the privileges of their predecessors? – the neo-colonialism described by writers such as Frantz Fanon[5]. In Johannesburg, government has put the city at risk of a water crisis by delaying investments in water security to support ‘transformation’. Was it appropriate to undermine national development goals and allow a ‘recolonisation’ of knowledge?
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