Dean Macpherson said he currently knows of over 50 projects that have either stopped, stalled or were withdrawn due to the involvement of the construction mafia.
‘These are not nice people’: Minister Dean Macpherson insists government will not negotiate with construction mafia
The call to action was made by Professor Irrshad Kaseeram, from the University of Zululand’s Economics Department, in reaction to the joint decision announced on Friday by Macpherson and KwaZulu-Natal Public Works MEC Martin Meyer, to hold an urgent meeting. “The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government and the national government are very clear and I am very clear the minister of public works and infrastructure that there will be no negotiations, no discussions, no roundtables with them,” Macpherson said.
“They are perpetuating crimes against the State, through holding back economic development, job creation and holding back infrastructure projects from being delivered to communities who so desperately need them.”
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