Saice’s second infrastructure report card, published on Tuesday, rated infrastructure development in ten sectors, namely drinking water systems, sanitation, roads, railways, airports, ports, electricity reticulation, hospitals, clinics and schools during the past five years at a “satisfactory for now” C-, marginally up from the “less than satisfactory” D+ that was awarded by the previous report card of 2006.

Infrastructure maintenance could account for many of the much-needed five-million jobs that South Africa is looking to create in the next ten years. From Polity.org.za

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