Controversial Durban businessman Jay Singh died on Friday morning
Singh had been embroiled in controversy over low-cost rental properties and the deadly Tongaat Mall collapse, which claimed two lives, for years.
Singh's company Gralio Precast, formerly known as Woodglaze Trading, had scored multimillion-rand housing contracts from eThekwini Municipality despite reports of shoddy work and unfair rental practices. Jagadasan, told a commission of inquiry into the mall collapse in 2014 that his father ran the day-to-day operations of all their companies.“I have built over 2000 houses, valued at R500,000 each without any plans. The [eThekwini] municipality had given me an open letter to say that I could build without plans,” he said.by the National Home Builders’ Registration Council for failing to comply with building requirements at a 96-unit housing project in Newlands West.
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