Work at R20bn key Umzimvubu project set to take off

Three key ventures projects which would to to unlock will help unlock economic opportunities for EC

A R20bn water project at Umzimvubu that will create hundreds of jobs in the Eastern Cape will start in earnest later this month.
Economic affairs MEC Oscar Mabuyane made the announcement on Sunday, while also saying: “More work would be done in the new financial year, which starts in April.”
He said the project, along with the oil refinery project dubbed Umthombo, as well as the construction of the N2 Wild Coast road, were key to unlocking “great economic opportunities for the people of this province this year”.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his presentation of the ANC’s election manifesto in Durban on Saturday, made an undertaking that the water catchment project would be rolled out in earnest in the next term of office, which will start after this year’s general election.
“We are aware that as early as this month preliminary work will be done in Umzimvubu.
“We are expecting that in the new financial year more developments will really take off.
“There is commitment that work will be started as early as later this month,” said Mabuyane in an interview with the Dispatch.
The project is under the control of the national..

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