Criminals have infiltrated the construction sector: analyst

JOHANNESBURG - Criminals have infiltrated the construction sector because government appears paralysed when it comes to making policy according to analyst Khaya Sithole.

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He was commenting on the construction mafias that are stunting infrastructure development and economic growth.

Sithole said, "I think the horse has bolted in the sense that what happens when government is paralysed in terms of policy making, people start running a parallel state structure."

"It is the same thing we have seen in the debate around e-hailing and meter taxis. Government has failed to put together policy to manage the transport value chain, we react when there’s conflict, when there’s fight between those contesting the space, that simply means government has retreated in its role of policy making and law making…it becomes very difficult to reverse the cause of action in the absence of comprehensive overhaul of the law enforcement systems that underpins those particular sectors and classes of the economy.”