Gauteng government’s Drone Programme yields results
Gauteng Provincial Government’s first of-a-kind drone programme, launched in Etwatwa, Benoni on the 21st of May 2018, has yielded dramatic results, fundamentally changing the way the Department of Infrastructure Development (DID) monitors and delivers its high-value building projects such as new schools, clinics, libraries, community centres and hospitals.
DID now employs five (5) unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor its projects across Gauteng City Region’s five development corridors.
Since the launch in, the programme has been refined and enhanced. Working with specialists from the University of Johannesburg the programme has been further strengthened with a range of technological advances.
This has fundamentally changed the way DID monitors and delivers its social infrastructure projects. The precise on-the-ground monitoring will cut out wastage and corruption and ensure that public infrastructure is delivered within budget, set time frames and at the right quality.
DID MEC Jacob Mamabolo invites media to a press briefing where the operations, and benefits, of the Drone Programme will be showcased.
The press briefing takes place as follows:
Date: Monday, 29 October 2018
Venue: Emoyeni Conference Centre, 15 Jubilee Rd, Parktown, Johannesburg
Time: 10:30 for 11:00
For more details contact:
Theo Nkonki
Spokesperson, Gauteng Department of Infrastructure
Cell: 082 719 6404
E-mail: theo.nkonki@gauteng.gov.za
