CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged nearly a trillion rand to modernise South Africa's infrastructure.
The country has long grappled with a myriad of challenges from economic stagnation to high levels of crime.
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Spending on infrastructure is one way of driving the country's economic growth and is a proven strategy employed for the 2010 FIFA world cup.
Maarten van Doesburgh discuss this further with eNCA.