Government efforts to motivate for the employment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for civil engineering and construction projects are causing difficulties for local infrastructure projects, says engineering and construction company Hyson Cells CEO and founder Sally Hall. “The awarding of tenders for infrastructure projects to certain SMEs over others causes conflict in communities,” she adds, citing a road project, in the Eastern Cape, which Hyson Cells inspected, as an example. The project passed through the domain of different communities, with community leaders demanding their financial share of the project.
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