Industry news
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UK to invest £8 billion in businesses and infrastructure across Africa 8/30/2018
The UK is announcing a range of measures to boost much-needed investment in businesses and infrastructure across Africa, the Prime Minister announced in Cape Town
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Tshwane’s First Steps Towards Becoming Africa’s Automotive Capital have already begun in Rosslyn 8/27/2018
Rosslyn Hub, a R4.5-billion, mixed use development that will catalyse the city of Tshwane to become the automotive capital of Africa, has broken ground.
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More women than any other group are buying property in Gauteng 8/23/2018
Lightstone Property’s Cindy Bezuidenhout says this trend could be indicative of women becoming more economically empowered
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Fourways property market geared for growth 8/20/2018
A concentration of mixed-use, commercial and residential developments are significantly driving growth in the Fourways property sector.
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How African cities can best prepare for rapid urbanisation 8/10/2018
By 2050, an estimated 1.4 billion people will be living in an African city. In Nigeria alone, 189 million people will have moved to a city, while Johannesburg will be home to 6.5 million inhabitants, and Nairobi 14.2 million. Africa needs to start making room for them. Joining CNBC Africa for more is Sabine Dall’Omo, CEO Siemens South Africa.
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African countries know they need better road networks but not how to pay for them 8/1/2018
The powerful idea African countries and cities should be connected with strong transportation networks, particularly by road and rail, is one that can sometimes be over-romanticized as a pan-African vision of the independence struggle. It has roots in colonialists’ vision for connecting the territories they controlled.
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Future cities, what’s the rush? 7/31/2018
When cities first came into being, they were either near natural resources, or transport routes, or in an area that might have been easy to defend. Naturally, they evolved over time as infrastructure became necessary to support inhabitants and as populations started to grow.
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Nairobi makes UN list of 4 top investment cities in Africa 6/26/2018
Nairobi is one of the four cities the United Nations has identified among top four African markets that attract highest foreign capital inflows, crucial to creating wealth.
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Adopt models for building sustainable cities 6/14/2018
The current model of urban development financing is not working. At least not in Kenya.
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Cape Town to Spend Billions on Housing and Traffic Congestion Relief 6/12/2018
Over the next three financial years, the City of Cape Town’s Transport and Urban Development Authority will spend the bulk of its capital budget on the provision of new housing opportunities, on new roads to relieve traffic congestion and on the infrastructure to roll out the MyCiti service to Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha.
