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Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says only one in six public infrastructure tenders were concluded in the past 12 months, describing the rate as "simply not good enough" and warning that procurement failures risk paralysing the state.
More than 190 families removed from their homes in KwaDukathole, Ekurhuleni, during apartheid are still waiting for restitution payouts 12 years after the process began, despite a R115.7 million compensation offer.
A South African consortium led by former Sibanye-Stillwater chief executive Neal Froneman is working with Rothschild & Co. on an R6.7 billion motorsport complex north of Cape Town that would include an F1 circuit, hospitality and residential property.
City Lodge Hotels has finished a major refurbishment of the 91-room Courtyard Hotel in Summerstrand, Gqeberha, creating seven permanent jobs as the group extends investment to its Road Lodge and Town Lodge properties in the city.
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia told Parliament that 42 construction projects in the City of Cape Town were affected by extortion, intimidation and construction-mafia activity over the past five financial years, with no arrests or convictions recorded in the metro.
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the city has cut through the red tape holding back affordable housing construction, with building due to start in several areas as early as next week.
The City of Johannesburg granted more than R2.9 billion in property rebates to at least 915,404 qualifying properties in the 2025/26 financial year, up from R2.7 billion a year earlier, with residential owners taking the largest share.
McCormick Property's R3 billion Dan City development in Tzaneen is negotiating to build its own electricity substation, a move the developer says is needed before construction of the mall can advance.
The Western Cape town of Kalbaskraal, less than an hour from the Cape Town CBD along the N7, is drawing bargain-hunting buyers, with an average sale price of R722,500 across 12 sales this year and three-bedroom homes listed at R750,000.