Patel outlines new ‘integrity pact’ to screen firms for big-project deals

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1. As the SA government ramps up its infrastructure spend, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has insisted on ‘value for money’

   EMBOLDENED by a broadly positive response to infrastructure plans outlined by President Jacob Zuma last week, the government appears to be trying to use the contracts likely to be involved to further bend business and the unions to its "developmental" agenda and its view of how business and labour under a state-led mixed economy should behave.

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