South Africa’s Infrastructure Symposium: An ambitious plan to boost investment and reignite growth

SOUTH AFRICA - Report 23 Jun 2020 by Iraj Abedian

Today, President Ramaphosa presided over the country’s inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium of South Africa (SIDSSA), a meeting that was promised at the beginning of the year by the Presidency as a culmination of intense stakeholder consultative processes aimed at mobilizing support and cooperation around the country’s revised Infrastructure Investment Plan. The National Infrastructure Plan was first adopted in 2012 by government with the aim of building new and upgrading existing infrastructure to help strengthen South Africa’s economy. The revised plan, on the other hand, is said to focus on partnerships between the public and private sector in order to deliver sustainable and well-suited infrastructure. The President indicated earlier that the symposium’s aim would be to immediately produce “a suite of projects that are of national significance and enhance quality, sustainability and capacity”.

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