President Cyril Ramaphosa says this year’s Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium of South Africa (SIDSSA) is about focusing on innovative approaches to projects and promoting new ways of building social infrastructure.
The conference will also for the first time be looking at Green Energy.
Government is focusing on raising funds for 55 projects for SIDSSA 2021.
The new projects being presented to the market are from various sectors valued at about R 595 billion with a funding gap of around R 441 billion.
Speaking at the second symposium in Sandton, Johannesburg, Ramaphosa says this year’s conference is different because government is looking at implementing quality infrastructure.
He says, ” One of the new frontiers of infrastructure development is green energy, which not only has the potential to drive industrialisation but to establish a whole new industrial reality. What is happening in our country now is that more and more we’re going ahead of the curve, because the world’s landscape has changed if you don’t respond to green energy or respond to climate change.”
President’s address at SIDSSA:
Ramaphosa says we must focus on rural areas:
