Procurement problems in consulting engineering not down to BBBEE

Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) would like to dispute in the strongest possible terms an article that appeared in Engineering News dated Friday June 26, 2015 titled "BBBEE requirements compromise quality of consulting services". The article by Gerrit Coetzee is highly patronising, opinionated and a blatant misrepresentation of facts that can only be ascribed to utter ignorance and a misguided imagination. Coetzee’s assertion that Black Economic Empowerment (now called Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) is akin to replacing skilled and experienced white employees with unskilled and unexperienced black employees, is entirely fallacious.