In other words a PPP (Public-Private Partnership). I thought PPPs had died down – this is not the case. They are happening. Refurbishing and managing a building probably won't be too hard a bidding process. PPPs are a different beast that don't appear to be issued under section 10 of the BE Act, you know […]
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Courtesy of Moneyweb. They published my article Why BEE and public private partnerships could work While relatively new to South Africa, public-private partnerships have incredible potential to deliver on empowerment measures. By Paul Janisch 10 Feb 2023 11:40 A recent article indicated that Transnet is considering outsourcing its container corridor between Durban and Johannesburg.
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As the rest of Africa was plundering its mineral wealth through nationalisation and mismanaged parastatals, Botswana chose the PPP path and stuck to it. Moreover, the wealth from the Debswana partnership was used wisely and did not act as a catalyst for unnecessarily grandiose projects and an orgy of looting. Through Debswana, Botswana has topped
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Mapisa-Nqakula also lambasted two existing PPP prison contracts, noting that, while the Kimberley facility had been built at a cost of R300-million, government would end up paying R1.5-billion for the capital cost of construction over a 15-year period. Cabinet, which endorsed the cancellation, also indicated that there would be a review of PPP models across
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The South African government has officially cancelled the much-delayed public-private partnership (PPP) procurement process for four new prisons, which would have added 3 000 additional bed spaces at the Paarl, East London, Nigel and Klerksdorp correctional centres. The procurement process was initiated in October 2003 when a transaction advisory team was appointed to study the
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The tendering process for one of Gauteng’s largest health care public private partnership (PPP) projects, the R7-billion revitalisation of the Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) hospital would open in December. The Gauteng provincial government said on Monday the process represented a commitment to leverage funding from the private sector to deliver quality healthcare services to the
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This report makes for very interesting reading, and I can't create one big post on it so I'll do it in pieces. This quote is for those of use who are keen on public private partnerships (PPPs), it comes from page 22 of the report. It was noted from the response of the Minister of
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Public Private Partnerships are without doubt the most effective tool that the government has to achieve its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), RDP and other empowerment related goals. Yet this method of procurement is not making the most of these opportunities. The problem seems to be that the transaction advisors that are used in the early
BEE is to right the wrongs of the past, it's the right thing to do, wealth needs to be redistributed from the 5% who have etc. We've all heard these justifications from numerous commentators and agitators. I have a different perspective. I don't view BEE as being so much about righting the wrongs of the
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I found this great article from a SKNews (St Kitts in the West Indies). The principles of PPP, when properly applied, give government tremendous leverage in undertaking many infrastructural projects simultaneously and even bring on board other projects that would otherwise be impossible. It is well known that infrastructure drives development. PPP is a partnership
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