their unlawful activities include violence and extortion.
Minister de Lille says the groups have tried to hijack building projects of the state by making abnormal demands from contractors. According to her, it is not clear how big the scale of vandalism and destruction of infrastructure in public property is. De Lille says what is certain, is that various groupings of local business people have been linked to vandalism of government buildings.
Podcast | Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry calls for a plan to end ‘Construction mafia’ operations:“Sometimes their demands are outrageous. They demand to be allocated thirty percent of the project. They demand that the thirty percent is in terms of the preferential procurement regulations of 2017 and they also blackmail constructors and professionals on the site by demanding money under the guise of a protection fee before the construction and the work can be seen.
JvanLogg It has emerged, where has been? As if it's only emerging now, this have been for more than a decade as far as I can remember and the Sunday Times as been reporting about this for years about project stoppages in cpt, she was still mayor then 🙄
This has been going on for years. The question is when will the MYANC government do something about it?
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