The controversial Delangokubona Business Forum (DBF) again found itself before the High Court in Durban on Monday as a construction company moved to interdict the forum from impeding work on a R132m inner-city hotel. Innova Turnkey had brought an application against the forum‚ as well as another off-shoot called Isivuthevuthe Se-Theku Forum‚ to prevent their members from hamstringing construction at the site in the CBD. The forum has taken on SA’s largest construction firms — a situation that many believe has put civil works projects worth billions of rand‚ from pipelines to hospitals and from malls to roads in KwaZulu-Natal — at risk. In February a R1.8bn revamp of Tsogo Sun’s Suncoast Casino complex was halted by the forum‚ which is accused of using threats of violence‚ intimidation and extortion to get lucrative construction work. Innova Turnkey security manager Gideon Rousseau said in an affidavit that members of the forums had shut down their construction site earlier this year...
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