WATCH | Lack of skills at forefront of crumbling infrastructure

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's local governance structures are losing engineers, which has crippled the country's ability to maintain essential infrastructure. 

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Eskom, Rand Water and Joburg Water are confronted by aging infrastructure and years of neglect. A lack of skilled engineers to turn things around isn't helping matters. 

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Steven Kaplan, former president of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, spoke to eNCA in the video above.