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Acta Structilia

On-line version ISSN 2415-0487
Print version ISSN 1023-0564

Abstract

WALL, Kevin. Report cards, and other tracking of South Africa's public sector fixed infrastructure condition. Acta structilia (Online) [online]. 2024, vol.31, n.1, pp.194-221. ISSN 2415-0487.  http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/as.v31i1.8017.

This article is the second of a planned series being published in this Journal describing investigations of the condition of South Africa's infrastructure, reasons for/contributory factors to this condition, and the consequences of this condition for service delivery and quality of life. The purpose of the article is not to critique any of the infrastructure condition measurements, but to convey to the reader a general impression of the direction in which the condition of public sector infrastructure in South Africa is heading, and to make inferences from that. The article introduces surveys which have been undertaken by credible institutions, including a number of national, provincial, and local government departments, state-owned companies, as well as the Auditor General to track South Africa's public sector fixed infrastructure condition. Over the years, a number of these surveys, some of them tracking the condition of this infrastructure and others tracking various performance criteria which allow inferences of the infrastructure condition to be made, have shown that the infrastructure is, on average, not in a good state - thus hampering service delivery and, as a consequence, harming the economy and the quality of life of the population. However, the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, with its four "infrastructure report cards", approximately five years apart, has provided the clearest picture of trends in infrastructure condition nationwide.

Keywords : public sector; infrastructure; South Africa; infrastructure report card; infrastructure condition.

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