Government’s plans to invest R3.2 trillion in economic infrastructure hinges on its ability to get citizens to buy into its vision, according to analysts who also highlighted the threat to government spending after e-tolling was blocked in Gauteng....
Holders of South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) bonds were “very concerned” about a possible further downgrade to the agency’s debt, according to SANRAL CFO, Inge Mulder. Investors were also concerned that a long delay to the implementation...
As the invited keynote speaker for the Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) presidential visit in Gauteng on the night of 6 June, Nazir Alli laid down some ground rules about his stance in terms of project delivery. The recently reinstated CEO...
During Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s parliamentary briefing last week, Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele alluded to the fact that the South African National Roads Agency Limited’s (Sanral’s) mandate should be broadened. Department of Transport...
Gauteng motorists would do well to pay as much attention to the soap opera like developments stemming from the e-tolling saga as they did prior to the High Court ruling of postponing the implementation indefinitely. The Opposition to Urban Tolling...
KwaZulu-Natal motorists may have watched the unfolding disaster of Gauteng’s e-tolls from afar, but the problem of crumbling roads – and paying to build and maintain them – will hit much closer to home. Delivering his provincial transport budget...
Financial market guru and acclaimed author Satyajit Das paints a gloomy future for global economics in which debt-ridden governments start raiding pension funds, living standards fall by 30% and food, energy and guns become the investments of...
The 55c a litre cut in the petrol price from Wednesday is a lost opportunity by the government to resolve the impasse around paying for the upgrading of Gauteng freeways, according to Econometrix. The authorities could have reduced the petrol price...
“The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) applauds Nazir Alli for withdrawing his resignation to remain the head of SANRAL,” says SAICE president Dr Martin van Veelen. The withdrawal is in the best interest of SANRAL and would...
