1. Business Learning Forum on
Anti-Corruption
25 September 2012

2. Wally Mayne
25 September 2012

3. 1 Introduction to CESA
2 CESA Presidential message
3 Commitment by CESA members
4 Additional initiatives
5 Bottom line

4. 60 years of consulting engineering (1952 – 2012)
1 Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) - established in 1952
2 A voluntary association - independent consulting engineers -
private practice
3 Initially 30 individual members in 1952 – now 487 firms
4 > 22 000 people in total - annual turnover of R17 Billion (2011)
5 CESA hallmarks - Integrity, professionalism & impeccable ethics –
(registration of companies)
6 Government & private sector partners - CESA firms delivering
infrastructure - improved power supply, better roads, safe
drinking water & efficient sanitation.
7 Infrastructure projects - create jobs, alleviate poverty & provide a
better quality of life for all South Africans.

5. ‘CESA engineers unquestionably ethical’
1 Corruption is the scourge crippling the Construction Industry –
offenders wilfully do not comply with procurement processes &
act with impunity (municipalities)
2 CESA President’s theme – Integrity - CESA engineers
unquestionably ethical
3 Firms to ensure their ‘ethical balance’ – is in accordance with the
CESA and/or their own Company Business Integrity Management
Systems (BIMS)
4 Firms must engage with every single employee - examine and
assess how employee’s ethical balance fits into company policy.

6. Code of Conduct, BIMS & Integrity Pact
1 CESA places huge emphasis on integrity & ethics
2 Pre-membership checks – registered with CIPC, practising > 1
year, 50% Prof Engineers, field of expertise etc
3 Membership entails commitment to CESA Code of Conduct &
BIMS, possibly Integrity Pact in future
4 Members subject to Disciplinary Code – clients have recourse –
complaints investigated and hearings held
5 Sanctions include suspension and termination of membership as
well as publication of findings in the press
6 CESA constantly on look-out to improve these Codes in line with
industry trends/legislation

7. 1 Challenge non-compliance by Organs of State (Mostly
DPW & municipalities)
1 Member firms bring non-compliance to CESA’s attention
2 Correspond with organ of state and copy CIDB/ Treasury
3 No response then follow-up letter
4 Still no response then alert media
5 Seek legal advice
6 Busy with pilot case (obtaining court interdict)

8. 2 Involvement with like-minded bodies
1 Identified NBI, BUSA & cidb as most suitable
2 Actively assisting with development of Integrity Pact (IP)
• initially developed own
• but realised require IP for Construction Sector
• so working with cidb as well as NBI & BUSA wrt IP and
other anti-corruption initiatives
3 Attended workshops with NBI & BUSA, membership of BUSA

9. 3 Amending procurement process for construction
sector
1 Complex & confusing procurement system - favours
corruption
2 Approached Treasury who is sympathetic to CESA proposals
3 Proposal 1 - re-introduce Quality/Functionality into point
scoring system for awarding tenders (PPPFA)
4 Proposal 2 - separate procurement process for construction -
not standard goods and services

10. A few parting shots
1 None of the above measures will work without effective
leadership
2 Business integrity is not about companies, government and
institutions, it is about individual human beings.
3 Need to change the ‘mindset’ – stop at the stopstreet, pick up
litter, pay accounts within 30 days, do an honest day’s work
4 Corruption is preventing service delivery – in the North-West
Province, consulting engineering work has dried up almost
totally – no new infrastructure is being built

12. For more information contact:
Achieng Ojwang, Programme Manager: UNGC
+27(0)11 544 6000; ojwang.achieng@nbi.org.za
www.nbi.org.za