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The construction industry's losses to marauding mafias are higher than what the government estimates them to be, a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime report shows. | soyiso_maliti

At a recent webinar, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala repeated a claim that the industry had lost R63 billion to criminal disruptions since 2019.

But the report, which Zikalala and Association of Construction Project Managers president Anthony Afordofe incorrectly cited, puts the figure at R63 million for only 2018/'19 only.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

 

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