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A POST-LOCKDOWN future would require the building of high-quality bridges, roads, railways, ports and other infrastructure, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in his Supplementary Budget yesterday. Borrowing a metaphor from President Cyril Ramaphosa, Mboweni said infrastructure would be the “flywheel” to drive economic growth through the tough economic conditions that had been worsened by the
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The Master Builders Association (MBA) North has broadly welcomed President Ramaphosa’s vision of massive infrastructure spending as the “flywheel” of South Africa’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking at the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium, President Ramaphosa said that 88 investment-ready projects had already been identified by the Presidency’s infrastructure and investment head Dr Kgosientsho
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The Master Builders Association (MBA) North has broadly welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s vision of infrastructure spending as the flywheel of South Africa’s recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.  Speaking at the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa held on June 23, President Ramaphosa said that 88 investment-ready projects had already been identified by the Presidency’s Infrastructure and
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At the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium on 23 June 2020, the president unveiled his vision for infrastructure-led economic revival. But, says the writer, we have heard similar rhetoric at every SONA and Budget – and yet little has happened on the ground.  The construction sector is suffering, as are the cement, engineering and steel industries. 
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The Master Builders Association (MBA) North has broadly welcomed President Ramaphosa’s vision of massive infrastructure spending as the “flywheel” of South Africa’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking at the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium, President Ramaphosa said that 88 investment-ready projects had already been identified by the Presidency’s infrastructure and investment head Dr Kgosientsho
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