Delangokubona Business Forum secretary says there are people going around misusing their name, but businesses claim they’re being terrorised.
“We are not criminals. We are businessmen; we are professionals and we have been doing good work in our communities. The Association of South African Quantity Surveyors sent out a grave statement calling for national intervention in what it described as a major threat to projects worth billions. The association’s Yunus Bayat said there was widespread concern in the built environment about the “construction mafia” and gang-related activities on project sites.
But Myeza said: “That is not us. Maybe there are people going around using our name, but that is not what we do. The people who are doing that must be arrested. According to ASAQS, construction projects worth more than R25.5 billion were being violently disrupted and halted. This week, the South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors issued an urgent plea for action from Mboweni.“These illegal site disruptions caused Aveng and European-based Strabag International to pull out of the project, which is part of the N2 Wild Coast road construction project,” said Bayat.