SA’s porous borders | Fence contractors ordered to pay back profits

JOHANNESBURG - Contractors responsible for the botched Beitbridge border fence will have to pay back the money.

They've lost an appeal to keep profits they made off the multi-million rand deal.

The companies won a tender to set up a fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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This was during the Covid-19 pandemic.

But soon after the wire mesh fence was erected, it began falling apart.

The contractors have now been ordered to pay back the R40-million in profits within 30 days.