Q&A with water and sanitation's Sputnik Ratau on Cuban engineers

The department of water & sanitation has hired 24 Cuban engineers to work on SA's broken water infrastructure. Chris Barron asked department spokesperson Sputnik Ratau ...

02 May 2021 - 00:00 By Chris Barron

Why are you importing Cuban engineers to fix our infrastructure when we've got hundreds of unemployed South African engineers qualified to do that?..

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