Controversial R400m DUT project shut down

Contractor allegedly doesn't have a valid working permit

- By Nkululeko Ncana

The Department of Labour has brought the R400-million Durban University of Technology (DUT) construction project to a grinding halt.

Sunday World has, in the past weeks, painted a web of questionable procurement decisions and regulatory violations that have plagued the project.

This week, the publication was informed of the closure of the site resulting from the coverage that exposed that the current project consultant, BorCon, was most probably operating without a valid permit.

The shutdown represents the latest chapter in a scandal that has rocked the project and raised serious questions about governance at one of the country's premier institutions of higher learning. And the exposé was followed by a slew of supposed further corrupt cover-ups.