DispatchLive reports that millions of rands owed by Bhisho to contractors who have built low-cost housing for the Eastern Cape department of human settlements have plunged them into financial distress.  

As a result hundreds of workers had a bleak festive season without pay, and face the prospect of being jobless in 2017.  The department has failed to pay companies more than R100-million due for housing built in various development projects.  As a result, many companies failed to pay their labourers in December.  One contractor described the situation as “a crisis ready to explode”.  The department has conceded that it “was having a cash flow challenge”.

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