Blacklist Must Go Beyond CIDB – Treasury Must Act!

MEDIA STATEMENT

Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, 21 September 2025 — Public Interest SA welcomes the long-overdue move by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) to blacklist 40 rogue contractors. For nearly two decades, only one company had been blacklisted since 2002 — a shocking dereliction now being corrected.

But this action must not stop here. We call on the National Treasury to enforce compliance across government by using the Restricted Suppliers and Tender Defaulters Database as it is so designed to bar procurement wrongdoers from further benefitting from public procurement. It is indefensible that scandal-tainted tenderpreneurs like Edwin Sodi and his web of companies continue to do business with the state despite repeated irregularities.

Selective accountability fuels corruption. True reform means no sacred cows and no protected tender kings. Treasury must close the loopholes, enforce the blacklist nationally, and restore public trust.

Let’s Make Our Democracy Work!

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Issued by: Public Interest SA