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In any environment, crime is a burden on business. The operative question is whether that burden is a small or large one, and whether it ranks as a high or low priority for the enterprises subject to it. In South Africa, that burden has long been a dire one, and there are disturbing indications that it is growing.
Road agency adjudicating 1 040 bids for 77 previously cancelled tenders that it hopes to 'fast-track'.
Sanral is catching up on the time the industry had lost by putting out 86 of the less complex consulting and construction tenders.
He points out that between 2018 and 2022, operations on more than 400 construction sites were disrupted by such groups.
Aims to get projects back on track after the tenders were cancelled following a legal challenge to the road agency's now-withdrawn new preferential procurement policy.