Taking on the engineering council

THE information presented by Manglin Pillay in “‘State weakens the foundations of engineering’ ” (March 26) paints a very sad state of affairs for us all.

I could hardly believe what I was reading: engineering associations have taken the Engineering Council of South Africa (Ecsa) to court. I hope they win. The council is digging a very large hole for itself, which it will probably disappear into one day.

I have been directly affected by the lack of engineering project work.

As an Ecsa-registered professional engineering technologist, I am without work today and have been for the past two years. I have actually given up looking for work.

Employment equity is a professional profession killer, and probably the main reason families who have the means to do so, emigrate. —

Llewellyn Thomas, Ekurhuleni