Question

what are contraints on facility management on south africa in as far as infrastructure development is concerned

Answer 1

South Africa is one of the populous countries in the world. It is the part of emerging markets. It has huge storage of natural and manpower resources. It has seen unequal growth in almost each sectors of the economy. It has many constraints on facility management which is required to infrastructural development:

1) Poor quality of education and awareness:

African countries are low in education ranking. This is because government and other institutions have not given much focus to make a good environment for this most important factor of human development. It is the basis of growth to other sectors. When, people lacks education then they have lack of vision to development to the society and country as well. Foreign rulers like Britishers have not given good focus to develop them.

2) Poverty and slow economic growth causes less focus to infrastructure development:

South Africa and many African countries are facing problems of feeding to its mass. When people have low mean to quench their hunger how they will think to develop some infrastructure.

3) Lack of innovation due to strong cultural association:

People still believes in traditional superstitions they never ready to start best practices from abroad. Even, people don’t interest to do some scientific temper, research and associated innovation.

4) Labor and land related issues:

Migrant labor, poor working conditions, low wages etc. are still the problem in South Africa. Land is generally owned by local prosperous people. People who wish to do agricultural activities don’t have land to do so.

5) Agricultural based economic development

South Africa is agri based economy apart from mineral exploration. The slow pace of these sectors does not generate any cash to the government and hence they don’t spend much money on infrastructure.

6) Slow competition among stated owned enterprises:

In South Africa, companies are generally owned by state government. In this they face challenges of slow decision making, old rule of thumbs, burecracy, and corruption .It ultimately create challenges to investors in the South Africa. Even, companies don’t show any competitive outlook from their strategic decisions.