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

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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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OPINION: Can private sector help with South Africa's infrastructure? - Marcus Dlamini

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Civil Engineering Project Manager Marcus Dlamini shares his hardhatOPINION on the private sector's role in helping with South Africa's infrastructure roll out.


What are the immediate things the private sector can do to help with SA's infrastructure?

Private sector ( private investments) can actually invest and propose management strategies with the government. Secondly Private sector needs to come as a partner in this value chain but not as a spectator.

What are the stumbling blocks preventing the private sector to do the above mentioned things to help with SA's infrastructure.

Its corporate egoism and a divided country.

What is the role of the government in encouraging the private sector to do more?

To encourage the private investment on infrastructure government needs to Incentives private sector and also implement proper procurement strategies accompanied by good implementation strategies as well

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Is the government doing enough to encourage the involvement of the private sector in SA's infrastructure?

Yes and No - i think the government is controlled and managed in different ways and portfolios. e.g Eskom - Government has been doing their level best to supply us with electricity since given all the trouble faced by the utility - however politics and media coverage defines how we perceive things.

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