Tau Grading denies Modipane road site abandonment

Tau Grading and Building Construction (applicant) has taken the following to court: Pro-Serve Consulting Botswana (first respondent), Absa Bank Botswana (second respondent), the Attorney General – representing the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (third respondent), and Unik Construction Engineering (fourth respondent). The Ministry of Transport has engaged Pro-Serve Botswana under the acclaimed Development Manager Model for the construction of a tarred/asphalt road and ancillary works between the villages of Modipane and Mabalane in the Kgatleng District.

According to the company to date, the first respondent cannot point to any plant, equipment, or labour which ought to have been on site but was not. It argues that a suspension of work (or tools down) does not mean that the applicant abandoned the site.