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Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi has promised that ‘no labour will come from China’ for the Moloto deal.
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Transport Minister has said China rail contract will deliver SA jobs

SA is negotiating with China to construct the Moloto Rail Development Corridor and Minister Joe Maswanganyi promises it will bring jobs.

  • Dineo Bendile
  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Plane empty: Hambantota’s ghostly airport was built by the same Chinese firm that has now landed a plum local contract. (Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images)
AIRPORTS

Airport idle, jumbos take the highway

Prasa’s Moloto rail project partners have a history of leaving white elephants and debt in their wake

  • Lisa Steyn
6 min read
Off course: The multibillion-rand contract to build a railway line on the Molotso corridor between Gauteng and Mpumalanga went to the China Communications Construction Company Limited (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)
ACCOUNTABILITY NOW

Boardless Prasa inks R57bn deal

Just who authorised a lucrative rail contract between the embattled parastatal and China?

  • Lisa Steyn
5 min read