The aim of this project is to reduce City of Johannesburg (CoJ's) waste to landfill by about 60-80%. This will require the diversion of 500 000 tons of waste from landfill sites out of about 1,600,000 tons. The output will be the generation of electricity and heat, a green energy initiative.

The tendering process for this project will open next month (November).

The City of Johannesburg Waste to Energy Project with an estimated capital value of between R6 billion to R10 billion. Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) hospital

In 2010 President Jacob Zuma announced the implementation of an extensive PPP programme for five public hospitals across the country. The Chris Hani Baragwanath is the largest and its feasibility study has been already prepared.

The estimated capital value of the CHB Academic Hospital Revitalisation Project is R 7 billion, making it the largest PPP in the healthcare sector in Gauteng Province.

The tendering process for one of Gauteng's largest health care public private partnership (PPP) projects hospital will open in December.More information to come in the next days.Cancellation of four PPP prisonsLast week, on Thursday October 31st, the government announced that they are cancelling four PPP prisons projects that were initiated in October 2003 when a transaction advisory team was appointed to study the feasibility of delivering the facilities in partnership with the private sector.The request for qualifications were released in October 2007 and the final tender on September 30, 2008. The bids were submitted in May 2009.An official source said that "a review of the model highlighted a number of financial and operational problems with the PPP model, including the fact that it conflicted with policy stipulating that security and custodial services of the State not be handed over the third parties".Follow us: