SA's second-largest construction company, Murray & Roberts, retrenched about 2000 people in the six months to December
ENGINEERING and construction group Murray & Roberts announced yesterday it was negotiating the purchase of listed local mining contracting group Cementation, as well as Cementation's businesses in Australia and Canada.
The public works department is compiling a transformation charter to boost black economic empowerment in the construction sector
There are growing indications that US and European companies, as opposed to African companies, will rebuild Africa through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad).
TOUGH conditions in the construction market were expected to catch up with SA's second largest construction group Murray & Roberts in the current financial year.

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