City of Cape Town to invest R120 billion on infrastructure upgrades over next 10 years – Hill-Lewis

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the city would invest R120 billion in the next ten years to improve infrastructure across the metro.

The mayor launched the city’s infrastructure report at a council meeting on Thursday.

Hill-Lewis said that 73% of the R11 billion infrastructure budget for this financial year would be spent on lower-income communities and people living in informal settlements.

He said that multi-billion rand upgrades to wastewater works were also on track to reduce sewer spills, particularly in poor communities.

“By quadrupling our sewer plant replacement targets to a 100km annually. Increasing pump station-related projects with an increase of 330% over this budget cycle for pump station expenditure and upgrades. Also, the bulk sewer upgrades that are taking place around the city in Milnerton, Gordon’s Bay, Philippi, and the largest current sewer upgrade project in South Africa, the Cape Flats sewer upgrade.”

-EWN

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