South Africa audits 204.5m rand in road contracts
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on IOL
South Africa’s Parliament has called for an audit of three national roads agency SANRAL contracts awarded to Moriel Infrastructure Group, worth a total of 204.5 million rand. The company was removed from the construction sector register, while SANRAL must establish whether the work and payments were justified, IOL reports.
The South African Parliament has called for an audit of three road contracts worth a total of 204.5 million rand awarded to Moriel Infrastructure Group. The request follows the company’s removal from the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) register, according to IOL.
The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) confirmed that Moriel had received at least 61.2 million rand for two of the projects. One contract was terminated before work began, another is still active and the third has been completed, according to IOL.
The largest contract, worth 107 million rand, concerned the rehabilitation of the N1 national road between Nelspoort and Three Sisters in the Northern Cape. SANRAL terminated it in September 2025 after Moriel failed to meet the conditions required to start work, said Vusi Mona, the agency’s acting chief general manager for marketing and communications, quoted by IOL.
Donald Selamolela, chairman of the parliamentary Transport Committee, asked SANRAL to verify whether the state had received sufficient value for the sums paid. He also called for action against false declarations and poor execution of construction contracts, according to IOL.
The request comes after the removal of 13 fraudulent construction companies, announced on 28 October in South Africa.
