The National Construction Summit on Crime-Free Construction Sites, held last week in Durban, has marked the urgent need for reform in the South Africa construction sector, including the enhancement of our regulatory frameworks, improved compliance...
In part 1 of this article, we provided a background to the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA) in the construction industry. While the PPPFA arguably created an unintended foothold for the construction mafia, we, fortunately, have...
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has called on the police to take stronger action to arrest those found guilty of disrupting infrastructure projects. Macpherson said government cannot negotiate with criminals in order to be...
In 2023, we published an article titled Construction Mafia – Remedies and Prevention in which we sought to unpack what the “construction mafia” actually is and we observed that the term is a mischaracterisation of its nebulous nature. The issue of...
