Sanral awards highway upgrade tender to firm accused of fraud

‘There’s no law stopping us from doing that’

Jeanette Chabalala Senior Reporter

The SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has defended its decision to award a R4.7bn tender to a company whose directors are facing fraud and corruption charges.

This, the road agency says, is because there is no law prohibiting it from giving contracts to criminally charged persons or companies who are yet to be found guilty...

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