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Emerging contractor sets strong example Enterprise development beneficiar y assistance plays a key role in transforming South Africa’s construction sector, as well as suppor ting SMME growth. For Cape Town-based company SR Civil Contractors, it’s been a major factor in growing business.
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idney Rober ts considers himself fortunate to be part of this initiative, but his journey has not been an easy one. While studying towards a BTech in Civil Engineering at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Roberts worked for a wellknown Cape Town-based roads construction company as an intern.
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“After spending three months in the mechanical workshop learning how ear thmoving and materials handling equipment worked, I was sent to Namaqualand to work on a roads project,” he explains. Once he qualified, Roberts worked with other contractors and gained valuable experience in roads and ser vices
SR Civil Contractors’ Bell 315SL backhoes deployed on a Cape Town infrastructure project
construction all over the Western Cape. A stint with JVC Plant taught him a lot about the contractual side of the business and, as a senior site agent, how to work to the highest standards of quality. “But, in the back of my mind, I had a long-held dream of being self-employed and I actually registered my future business, SR Civil Contractors, in 2013 – while still
