GUEST – Rob Rose – Editor at Currency

It was an icon of construction whose name is plastered across South Africa’s landmarks, yet this week it announced its liquidation. So was it a victim of circumstance, or its own own-goals?

It was a company that defined South African engineering excellence for a century, mirroring the path of the country’s industrialisation.

The landmarks it built are the country’s landmarks: the highest building in Africa, the 200m-tall Carlton Centre, built in 1975; the garish Sun City, built in 1981 for R25m; the 68,000-seater Cape Town Stadium, built for the 2010 World Cup. Kaya FM