Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says government has received overwhelming responses from the private sector invited to invest in the countrys rail infrastructure.
In March, Creecy launched an online request for proposals from the private sector.
The minister delivered the keynote address at the 25th Africa Rail Conference in Sandton, Johannesburg. She says South Africa will produce a refined rail master plan before the end of the year.
There is significant appetite, so much appetite and so much interest that weve had to agree to extend the time deadlines to the end of May. We were supposed to close everybody was supposed to submit at the end of April and weve had to extend until the end of May we made a public announcement about that yesterday. This is going to be very important information that were going to get that will allow us to determine how we put out requests for proposals. So, this is not a bid process. Its an information sharing process,