Title: N4 Toll Road from South Africa to Mozambique

Language: English

Type: Document

Nature: Case Study

Published: March 1, 2009

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa

Country: Mozambique, South Africa

Sector: Transportation

Topic: Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Keywords: Fragile and Conflict-Affected States - FCS, Road

Document Link(s):

• N4 Toll Road from South Africa to Mozambique

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Document Summary:

The rehabilitation of the N4 toll road forms part of the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC) project, between Johannesburg and Maputo, which also includes other modes of transport. Projects such as the MDC are seen in a larger context of a Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) by the South African government to promote development where export- oriented economic potential exists and with the assistance of the private sector.

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Document Details:

South Africa has an important experience in PPP projects, involving about 300 such projects on the national and provincial levels since 1994. The South African National Treasury, the body that deals with PPP projects, developed a PPP Manual to guide projects of this nature. The manual defines a PPP to be a contract between a public sector institution and a private party, in which the private party assumes substantial financial, technical and operational risk in the design, financing, building and operation of a project. The guidelines discuss various procurement possibilities varying between public procurement and full privatisation. The South African National Roads Agency already began tolling part of the major national roads in the mid 1990s and developed concessionary structures to overcome budgetary constraints. However, the N4 project linking the economic heartland of the country (Gauteng Province) to Maputo port is the first major PPP project implemented, although other PPP road projects followed, such as the N3 between Johannesburg and Durban.

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Updated: November 19, 2022