Green bonds key to help fund SA’s huge infrastructure programme
The public works ministry and the infrastructure investment office in the presidency have started talks with investors and the JSE
29 September 2020 - 13:27
SA plans to tap global appetite for green bonds to help fund an infrastructure programme worth as much as R2.3-trillion over the next decade.
Winning over the private sector and streamlining the project-approval process will be key to the drive, launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa in June, to revive an economy that was already in recession before the coronavirus struck, and is expected to contract by the most in nine decades in 2020. In July, 62 priority projects were announced in the first stage of the programme...
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