Civil engineering, along with the rest of the construction sector, will remain in the doldrums for 2018 with hopes for some improvement to begin next year. This is according to Industry Insight senior economist David Metelerkamp. Metelerkamp, who...
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says his department is on a mission to recapture state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in a bid to save them. Speaking at a media briefing ahead of his departmental budget vote debate, Gordhan said it was...
Newly elected president Cyril Ramaphosa has turned his attention to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to ensure that they deliver on their mandate. In his inaugural State of the Nation Address (SONA) the president said that government would intervene...
Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has assured all lenders and investors that Eskom and Transnet are credible and reliable borrowers with strong credit fundamentals as evidenced by their respective credit profiles. This comes after...
Two of the major challenges facing the economy are encouraging greater private sector investment and the need to improve the state’s capacity to monitor, implement and manage projects. This is according to Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene who was...
State-owned enterprises will find it difficult to raise money to implement the government’s proposed strategic infrastructure projects (SIPs), the DA said on Sunday. “The DA is concerned about the capacity of SOEs to raise funds for and...
