South Africa is facing a growing infrastructure backlog with maintenance deficits just for government properties exceeding R30 billion in 2025. It is for this reason that FirstRand Head of Infrastructure, Judy Kobus, argues that something needs to be done to ensure that infrastructure development happens at a much more faster pace.
Speaking to the SABC at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda , Kobus says pressure is mounting on both the private and public sector to collaborate in resolving these challenges.
"You can feel the infrastructure backlog ... you can feel it as a citizen and I think that there is a lot of pressure for us as the private sector and also the public sector to work together deliver the infrastructure in a much more expeditious way than what we have seen in the past," she says.
