Many tendering companies registered in Kgatleng are reportedly struggling to make it in business as the Kgatleng District Council is accused of starving them tenders preferring to award projects to companies from outside the district. Council Chairman, Daniel Molokwe is furious that his council continues to ignore councilors appeal for small/medium projects in the area to be reserved for companies registered in Kgatleng. His councilors also shared the same sentiments. Molokwe is not happy that the same appeal was also recently made by the Assistant Minister of Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Setlhabelo Modukanele but council’s implementing officers seemed to have also not taken him serious and continued allocating such tenders to companies registered outside their district. When addressing Kgatleng District Council this week Molokwe reiterated that his council needs to find ways to grow business in the district by awarding tenders to locally registered companies. “It does not sit well with us to see for instance a P16 000 tender to be awarded to a company residing 700km away from our district, one would wonder if there was no company locally that is capable of doing that job” Molokwe highlighted. The council was recently allocated over P1.5…