Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala is on an official working visit in the United Kingdom, where he will engage strategic finance stakeholders and conduct important bilaterals with his ministerial counterparts on driving further investment into South Africa’s infrastructure project pipeline.
Zikalala will be in the United Kingdom till Friday.
While in the UK, the Minister will deliver a keynote address at the Global Trade Review Africa in London on Wednesday, as well as attend the opening of Parliament, at the invitation of Hon. Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, Speaker of the House of Commons.
The South African government has unveiled and gazetted a project pipeline of over 70 projects in the sectors of energy, water, digital infrastructure, transport, human settlements and agriculture.
Zikalala, who is joined by a delegation from Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), will seek to pivot investment-ready infrastructure projects and further strengthen relations with the UK government to ensure sustainable collaboration in the infrastructure eco-system.
Minister Zikalala is hosted by the UK Prime Minister’s trade envoy to South Africa, Andrew Selous and will conduct bilaterals with the Minister of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Andrew Mitchell, and the Minister of State in the Department for Business Trade, the Earl of Minto.
Zikalala and his delegation will round off the visit with a site visit to Kings Cross and bilateral engagements with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
Zikalala will thereafter proceed to the Afrexim Bank Intra Africa Trade Fair in Cairo, Egypt, where he will focus on accelerating business and economic growth across Africa.
This, according to his department, will be a platform that will also be utilised to showcase and market Strategic Infrastructure Projects (SIPs).
This forum will involve senior executives from governments, major banks, companies and NGOs from across Africa and beyond.
