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South African E-Toll Consultation SAGA: Corporate Governance Lessons for Public Consultation in Mega-Projects

In: Corporate Governance - Recent Advances and Perspectives

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  • Nthatisi Khatleli

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Mega-projects have unfortunately gained a bad name the world over. The electronic-tolling project in Johannesburg called the GFIP (Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project) is one such project. The perfunctory consultation initiative in an environment where the legislation is not robust and the corporate governance is still fledging led to opportunistic behaviours characterised by malicious compliance. The take home lesson especially in these high dollar projects is to be prescriptive on the consultation process that is backed by a well-thought-out legal framework. The scrutiny of documents and interviewing all the stakeholders was insightful and instructive even to other jurisdictions. Notably that a shallow and limited consultation drive is counter-productive. For a consultation drive to yield desired results it has to be deliberate, aggressive and tailor-made to suit contextual exigencies.

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  • Nthatisi Khatleli, 2022. "South African E-Toll Consultation SAGA: Corporate Governance Lessons for Public Consultation in Mega-Projects," Chapters, in: Okechukwu Lawrence Emeagwali & Feyza Bhatti (ed.), Corporate Governance - Recent Advances and Perspectives, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:246781
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.103054
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    Keywords

    corporate governance; E-tolling; mega projects; public consultation; South Africa;
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    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

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