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NEWS : Government's strategic plan to combat the Construction Mafia

Deputy Minister of Finance, Ashor Sarupen, has outlined a three-pronged government strategy to counter the escalating disruptions to construction sites by criminal groups. These disruptions threaten the gains made in transforming South Africa into a vibrant construction hub. The strategy focuses on public procurement reform, public-private partnerships (PPPs), and infrastructure investment. Sarupen emphasized that these disruptions are not merely operational challenges, but a stress test for South Africa's economic governance, exposing vulnerabilities in institutional frameworks and socio-economic fractures within communities. GOVERNMENT'S THREE-PRONGED STRATEGY TO COMBAT CONSTRUCTION MAFIA. The full article can be read on BIZCOMMUNITY follow our Whatsapp channel  here  for more hardhatREVIEWS.

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