The Civil Engineering Contractor July 2019 | Page 38

BUSINESS INTEL
Moving forward
Looking beyond 2030, stakeholder
engagement
and
community
development are projected to play
an even bigger role. “The most
important thing is for us to move in
a structured strategic direction to
be able to generate value for South
Africans so as to support the economy
and contribute to the development of
people. Horizon 2030 begins a journey
towards ensuring that SANRAL plays
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a much more structured role in
developing communities,” he says.
Owing to his time at Airports
Company South Africa (ACSA)
and working on global and
intercontinental projects for various
airports, he is looking to expand
SANRAL services by looking at
opportunities in Kenya and Uganda.
“We’ve got the expertise and we
can sell it and we can develop. Asian
countries like China and Japan are
already doing the work that we do.
We’ve got skills that are comparable
with our international peers,” he says.
This step will assist in generating
additional revenue for the agency. “We
are largely funded by government,
but we’ve seen the value of using
public funding to leverage private
finance. SANRAL became a R15-
billion entity with public funds alone
in 2017. But with private funds
supplementing public funds, the same
amount was reached in 2009. All of the
infrastructure we delivered between
2009 and now would not have been
delivered if we just had access to public
funds. We project to be a R30-billion
entity by 2030 with public funds alone,
but with private funds we can get there
in 2024,” he explains.
“Furthermore, we will also continue
to play the role of the leader, the
pioneer, in terms of roads development
in the country. A lot of the best practice
we introduce is adopted by other roads
authorities,” he shares. nn
goes further than access roads and road
safety infrastructure, it is also supporting
communities with other needs: we
workshop with them to identify their
priorities. We have developed materials
to train people to interact better with
road networks,” he adds.
A test track is also in the pipeline
to test mobility technologies that
can allow roads to generate their
own energy to power street lights,
or generate energy to power road
markings at night for better visibility.
South African National Roads
Agency Limited (SANRAL) CEO
Skhumbuzo Macozoma.
www.civilsonline.co.za