ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IMPERATIVES IN SOUTH IMPERATIVES IN SOUTH AND SOUTHERN AFRICAAND SOUTHERN AFRICA

European Union Road Federation

3 June 2005

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1. Policy Environment

2. Moving South Africa – Vision 2020

3. Social Responsibility – Poverty Relief Projects

4. Public Private Partnerships

5. NEPAD – Regional Integration

1. POLICY ENVIRONMENT Global and Domestic Competitiveness

• Microeconomic Reform

- Crosscutting Issues– Addressing key micro-economic enablers

• Technology• Human resource development• Access to finance• Infrastructure

- Creating competitive and sustainable input sectors– Transport, telecommunications and energy

- Prioritised growth sectors- Automotives• Agro-processing• Chemicals• Clothing and Textiles• Marine• Minerals, Metals and Capital Equipment• Transport

1. POLICY ENVIRONMENT Global and Domestic Competitiveness

• Microeconomic Reform

- Prioritised growth sectors (cont.)

– Tourism

– Agriculture

– Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

– Cultural Industries

– Aerospace

- Promoting equity with growth

– Black Economic Empowerment

– Small Business Development

– Employment

– Geographic spread of economic activities

2. MOVING SOUTH AFRICA – VISION 2020

• Challenges for transport to support the new industrial policy

– Spatial redistribution of development– Prioritising export-led growth built on a

foundation of value-added exports– Regional integration within SADC

2. MOVING SOUTH AFRICA – VISION 2020

• National Road Network

– Currently 7 200km, with 20 000km of primary roads planned in future.

– Includes 1 400km of dual carriageway freeway, 440km of single carriage freeway and 5 300km of single carriage main road with unlimited access.

– Approximately 1 900km are toll roads, serviced by 27 mainline toll plazas.

– Government projects to maintain new and existing roads, as well as the construction of several new toll road developments, are under way.

2. MOVING SOUTH AFRICA – VISION 2020

• Rural Transport– Unwind legacy of dependence on external

activities and welfare funding– Access and mobility to support integration of self-

sustainable rural communities into socio-economic life

– Integrated provision of infrastructure

2. MOVING SOUTH AFRICA – VISION 2020

• Freight Transport– Service for export customers to enhance their

global competitiveness– Job creation and the development of SMMEs– Correction of spatial imbalances in development

and redistribution– Support for regional economic integration of

development and trade– Optimal use of scarce resources, with minimal

dependence on the fiscus– RDP objectives

2. MOVING SOUTH AFRICA – VISION 2020

3. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: POVERTY RELIEF PROJECTS

• Infrastructure investment projects– Provide basic infrastructure in poor communities– Facilitate human development and assist in

capacity building– Provide jobs and community involvement– Uplift rural communities– Promote production and provide access to

markets

4. PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPPROJECTS

Project Location Length Concessionaire Investment Value

N3 Toll Road Cedara, KwaZulu Natal to Heidelberg, Gauteng

418km N3 Toll Concession (Pty) Ltd

R3.5 billion

N4 Maputo Development Corridor

Gauteng to Maputo

504km Trans African Concessions

R3 billion

N4 Platinum Highway

Pretoria to Skilpadhek border post with Botswana

380km Bakwena Platinum Concession Consortium (Pty) Ltd

R3.2 billion

5. NEPAD - REGIONAL INTEGRATION

• Infrastructure Short-Term Action Plan (STAP)

• Infrastructure development linked to regional integrated development

• Infrastructure needs to be rationalised on a subregional basis

• Responding to sector challenges:

• Facilitation

• Capacity building

• Investment

• Studies

5. NEPAD - REGIONAL INTEGRATION

• Infrastructure Short-Term Action Plan (STAP)

• Progress in SADC• Implementation of transport policy, legislative and institutional

reforms:• Establishment of road funds and boards, and

autonomous road agencies/authorities• Enhanced involvement of the private sector in

infrastructure and service provision through privatisation, concessions, strategic partnerships

• Establishment of new infrastructure facilities and services such as toll roads

• Increased participation of the private sector in national and regional policies and programmes, including the formation of associations to pool resources and coordinate positions, e.g. Federation of Eastern and Southern African Transport Associations (FESARTA); Association of Southern African Road Agencies (ARASA)

4. NEPAD - REGIONAL INTEGRATION

• Infrastructure Short-Term Action Plan (STAP)

• Progress on SADC Projects

• Implementation of Overload Control along Road Corridors

• One-Stop Border Posts

• Trans Kalahari

• Dar Es Salaam

• Capacity Building - Strengthening Stakeholders Associations for Trade Facilitation