SA’s big-build plan: just hot air?

Central to SA’s recovery from a deep, Covid-linked recession is whether the government will be able to deliver on a big, joint infrastructure push with the private sector. The government is adamant its infrastructure plan is making real strides; the private sector, though it is encouraged, remains sceptical.

That the momentum continues to build is clear from the gazetting in late July of the 50 priority projects identified by Infrastructure SA (ISA), headed by government infrastructure tsar Kgosientsho Ramokgopa...