BY BUSINESS EDITOR
MBABANE – Man of Steel (Pty) Ltd t/a Man of Steel Construction have been enlisted as the best evaluated tenderer to be awarded the E1.8 million EWADE tender.
Eswatini Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise (EWADE) was looking for a construction company to construct the Ndzevane Multipurpose Hall and the proposed contract price by Man of Steel was E1 866 512.85.
The company is expected to begin executing the tender after a period of 10 working days, should they not be contested.
Meanwhile, EWADE awarded Sakhalive Joint Venture’s (JV) the over E3 billion Mpakeni dam contract.
Sakhalive JV is a Joint Venture company established by two giant construction firms based in China that is, Yellow River Co. LTD and Sinohydro Bureau 3 Co. LTD. The two construction firms have engaged in various developmental works all over the globe in the fields of hydropower mechanical road construction and related works. The company recently won the contract for the construction of the Mpakeni Dam and Associated Works (including the construction of access roads) through a competitive bidding.
The contract is valued at about E3 billion (US$136 million) and the construction period is 51 months. The scope of the project comprises the construction of a 52 metre-high clay core rockfill embankment dam and associated works including a 15km main access road. The project will contribute to local infrastructure, socio-economic and agricultural development.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Samson Sithole of Eswatini Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise (EWADE) announced in October that labour hiring for the Mkhondvo-Ngwavuma Water Augmentation Project (MNWAP) will be localised.
According to Sithole, the project will force some 146 residents to relocate and be physically displaced below the reservoir’s maximum functioning level. He predicted that local communities will benefit from the emergence of both formal and informal work possibilities.
“The project is currently 52% complete and is implementing the first phase of relocating homesteads in the impacted area. Local builders who are employed through a Project Employment Committee (PEC) have already benefited from this, he stated.
The construction of Mpakeni Dam is said to provide job opportunities to over 1 000 emaSwati and numerous subcontractors.
Sakhalive JV said they estimated to hire over 1 000 emaSwati in order to improve their work skills by trading their (Sakhalive JV) skills and technology. They said they were already busy with the project.
