From AK-47s to business forums: This is how SA's 'construction mafia' is winning | Fin24

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The 'construction mafia' which has terrorised building sites across the country, backing their demand for 30% of contract values with AK-47 firepower, is slowly moving towards respectability as the industry embraces business forums in local sub-contracting

The"construction mafia" which has terrorised building sites across the country, backing their demand for 30% of contract values with AK-47 firepower, is slowly moving towards respectability as the industry embraces business forums in local sub-contracting.

The construction mafia, which grew out of two militant groupings in KwaZulu-Natal around 2014 and subsequently spread to all nine provinces, has followed a typical modus operandi: armed men arrive on site, purporting to represent local business, and demand 30% of the contract value, sometimes simply as protection money, other times through a demand for sub-contracts.

Roy Mnisi, executive director of industry association Master Builders, says:"The demand by certain groupings commonly known as business forums came about a few years ago and took different forms, but the common denominator was that they used violent tactics to achieve their goals."Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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Strong probability the KZN construction mafia, as beneficiaries of the rebuild, were behind the clinical destruction of real estate in the KZN July unrest

Shocking!

This is merely an extension of the culture the ANC. The ANC bigwigs get protection fees (read board meeting fees, BEE deals, shareholdings) from large corporates (mining, banking, etc etc) in exchange for government favour (read protection). The underlings now resort to the same

U tried 4many years 2criminalise SAns who simply demanded lawful equity stake in projects. The gov & industry continued 2prioritise those from outside areas where such work was carried out. Same shit u pushing with illegal migration. They were never mafia 2any1else but u!!!

What, so the criminals have won and the authorities can't do anything about it 🙆‍♂️

JvanLogg Ha. A bit like the early days of the insurance industry?

On the other hand the Contractors may organize private investigators and follow private prosecution if the ANC government is entangled in this Mafia style extortion of construction business.

In a real normal State National Intelligence Agency, Police Crime Intelligence, Hawks, will go down and find out out who are behind this and who are the beneficiaries of this criminal act. Follow the money received may be it bumps over political parties bank accounts.

AK 47s have normalized extortion. WTF.

All of those people are ANC comrades🚮

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So the construction mafia with Ak-47 fire power is becoming respectable? How is that possible?🤔

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