R185m, two contractors and a trail of shifting deadlines on Joburg’s Lilian Ngoyi Street
What to know about R185m, two contractors and a trail of shifting deadlines on Joburg’s Lilian Ngoyi Street
The City of Johannesburg has paid R185-million to two contractors to rebuild and redevelop just 1.8km of Lilian Ngoyi Street – expenditure that, on a broad distance basis, already puts the unfinished inner-city project into the cost territory of some major…
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What happened
The City of Johannesburg has paid R185-million to two contractors to rebuild and redevelop just 1.8km of Lilian Ngoyi Street – expenditure that, on a broad distance basis, already puts the unfinished inner-city project into the cost territory of some major…
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Common ground
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Perspective signals
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Follow-up questions
- What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: R185m, two contractors and a trail of shifting deadlines on Joburg’s Lilian Ngoyi Street?
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