[TOP STORY] Overview of the Afrimat Construction Index

[LISTEN] My advice to government is to resuscitate the RDP housing programme...with a greater partnership approach with private sector we should build houses by the thousands in SA: Dr Roelof Botha on MoneywebNOW construction housing podcast

JIMMY MOYAHA: I’m chatting now with the Afrimat Construction Index curator, Dr Roelof Botha. Good morning, sir.JIMMY MOYAHA: Please help us make sense of the data. There are a lot of graphs. There are a lot of pretty-looking graphs. There are some graphs that don’t really agree with what we want to see. But overall the index speaks to the construction sector mainly in South Africa, and its value and its contributions towards our economy.

It goes right back to a recent statement by President [Cyril] Ramaphosa, where he seemed to indicate that government is starting to take the decay of many municipalities, the dysfunctionality, rather seriously.

Dr ROELOF BOTHA: Yes. It’s not only buildings. Of course it’s also roads, it’s also dams, it’s also improving the quality of out harbours, which is absolutely shocking, but at least they’re still operating, But just for the listeners’ benefit, because the two of us, we can see the slide, the Afrimat Construction Index slide, and it’s very easy to explain this.

I just want to take us back to the latter part of the [President Nelson] Mandela and [President Thabo] Mbeki era, when they were in charge before the disastrous Zupta era. This country built more than three million RDP [Reconstruction and Development Programme] houses, decent houses. In India, *** sorry, I can’t pronounce that name, it’s an Indian name – but essentially it means houses for the rural poor. With that programme, they have already built about 11 million houses.

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