De Lille: Corruption in construction sector costing SA billions, investors Graft in the construction sector has cost the state about R10 billion in price-fixing. Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Patricia De Lille tabling her department budget vote in Parliament on 10 July 2019. Picture: @DepPublicWorks/Twitter
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JOHANNESBURG - Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille admitted South Africa had been left littered with unfinished projects because the construction sector was one of the most corrupt in the country.
Graft in the construction sector has cost the state about R10 billion in price-fixing.
On Monday, the department together with the Special Investigating Unit, launched the Infrastructure Built Anti-Corruption Forum to monitor infrastructure projects more effectively.
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille said on Tuesday the funding spent on state funerals will be reduced by about R11 million in the next three years.
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Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille has promised that less will be spent on state funerals, state visits and other functions.
The department s budget for prestige programmes will drop from R94 million in 2021-22 to R83 million in 2023-24.
On Tuesday, De Lille delivered her department s budget vote speech in Parliament.
The government plans to spend less on functions, state visits and funerals.
On Tuesday, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille announced in her budget vote speech less would be spent over the medium-term expenditure framework (three financial years) to curb spending.
Neo Thale Mbete said one simply did not take something because someone has said it and present it to a busy Parliament. Former speaker of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, at the State Capture Commission in Braamfontein on 18 May 2021. Picture: Neil McCartney
Baleka Mbete, the former National Assembly speaker, told the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture that she ignored a tip-off about the arms deal, and given the opportunity, she would do it again.
She told the commission chair, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, that she ignored a document containing “scary things” about the controversial arms deal because it had “no signature and “no author”.
Sipho Mabena President Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille will hand over title deeds to the farmers in a ceremony at Loskop Farm. Picture: iStock
The government has transferred ownership of at least 189 hectares of farming land worth more than R25.5 million to 30 black farmers in the Tafelkop area in Limpopo.
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has transferred the land to the farmers who have been working the land for more than two decades free of charge for land redistribution purposes.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille will hand over title deeds to the farmers in a ceremony at Loskop Farm in Groblersdal on Saturday.