It is legally, morally and ethically wrong to deny payments to suppliers or contractors who, in good faith, have supplied goods and services or have satisfactorily executed works… In the final analysis, it is the taxpaying public that must come to the rescue of meeting the financial obligations of the Project which, with careful planning, and a highest possible degree of competitiveness, transparency and accountability, would have resulted in significant cost savings.
The D’Urban Park Project is again in the news. This time, the Minister of Finance is reported to have stated that contractors would have to accept what was being offered and suffer losses. During the consideration of the 2017 Estimates, we learnt that suppliers and contractors were owed approximately
