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Description: Construction of a five-star hotel for a new Radisson Blu Beach Resort Hotel located in Santa Maria, Cape Verde. The five-star beach resort designed with a modern minimalistic design will have 240 guest rooms, two restaurants, four bars including a roof top, wellness spa and an iconic swimming pool design with various pools and lounges leading onto a white sandy beach and ocean. The beach resort will offer the largest conference centre in Cape Verde islands with more than 1500 meters of dedicated meeting and event space. 

Status: Underway

Industry: Building

Region: Cape Verde

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: Completion due by the end of 2019.

Notes: Construction has commenced on this beach resort hotel which is expected to be complete by the end of 2019.

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For additional components relating to this Project, please also see PPA 19351 + PPA 19349

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Description: Construction of residential apartments as part of Phase 2 for a mixed-use development in Rwanda. The proposed development is set on a prime 158 hectare tract of land in Gaculiro, Kinyinya Sector of Gasabo district, this high-end estate is adjacent to RSSB constructed Vision 2020 Estate and approximately 3 km from the proposed Central Business District (CBD) at Muhima and 6 km from Kigali International Airport. It will consist of over 4 500 units in different configurations ranging from luxury villas to apartments to be built in 4 phases over 8 years.

Status: Procedural

Industry: Building

Region: Rwanda

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: 2017 onwards.

Notes: The first phase of the project is now complete, putting 504 spectacular properties on the market for home-owners to buy. Currently selling off the completed properties.

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For additional components relating to this Project, please also see PPA 18490, 18492, 18493, 18494, 18595, 18496 & 18497

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Description: Bridge Power Project, Phase 1, Ghana

Status: Underway

Industry: Infrastructure

Region: Ghana

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+ 

Timing: 2017 onwards

Notes: The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the 400-MegaWatt Bridge Power project, the world’s largest LPG-fired power plant. Construction has commenced. Contract period has not been stated.

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For additional components relating to this Project, please also see PPA 19755

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Description: Construction of shopping malls for a new city near Cairo in Egypt. Eagle Hill is planning to invest US$80 billion in the construction of this city that will become the country’s new capital. The new city is meant for the low and middle income earners and will include an airport, shopping mall, hotels and amenities such as schools and hospitals as well as providing homes to low and middle-income buyers. The new city is still to be named and will be built near the Suez Canal.

Status: Awarded

Industry: Building

Region: Egypt

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+ 

Timing: 2015 onwards.

Notes: A project by Chinese state companies to help build a new capital for Egypt is back on track after running aground earlier this year in a dispute over contract terms. The Egyptian investment and housing ministries have begun talks to finalize an agreement with Shanghai-listed developer China Fortune Land Development under which the company is to invest up to $20 billion to build an upmarket residential district, an industrial zone, schools, a university and recreational centers in the new capital. the final agreement could be reached by year-end, with construction beginning the following month. Local Egyptian contractors have commenced on construction of Phase 1.

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For additional components relating to this Project, please also see PPA 15601, PPA 15602, PPA 15604, PPA 15605, PPA 15606, PPA 15607 and PPA 15608

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Description: The Grand Renaissance Dam hydropower project is located on the Abay River in the Beneshangul Gumuz region in Ethiopia envisages a plant with an installed capactity of 6000MW that will supply 15 693GWh/y. The major components of the project include: a 145m high roller-compacted concrete dam with a 1780m long crest; a saddle dam, 4800m long and 45m high; two outdoor powerhouses of 3750MW and 2250MW installed capacity each with a capacity of 375mW and a 500kV switchyard which will transmit power from the power houses to the grid.Construction of 123km access roads, camps, workshops and other civils works are also planned as part of the project. GPS Co-ordinates : 11°12′51″N 35°05′35″E Estimated project value $4.8 billion.

Status: Underway

Industry: Infrastructure

Region: Ethiopia 

Sector: Public Private Partnership

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: Completion is expected by the end of 2017.

Notes: The construction of the 6,000-megawatt, US$5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that began nearly seven years ago, is now close to completion. By the end of this year, the dam, which sits on the Blue Nile near the border of Ethiopia and Sudan, will begin generating electricity.

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Description: Construction of a five-star hotel as part of the Zanzibar Amber Golf Resort in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The resort is to be built in the north east of Zanzibar in Unguja.The mega resort will comprise 5, five-star hotels, an equestrian centre, a private jet airport that will have a 3 000m runway, an international school and modern medical facilities that will serve all the customers. Electricity between 25 and 30 MW will be generated at gas and wind energy plants that are set to be built near the resort. Estimated project value US$1 billion

Status: Awarded

Industry: Building

Region: Tanzania 

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: 2017 onwards

Notes: The first residential opportunity released to the market will be the luxury apartments, available for pre-sale in the second quarter of 2017. Private airport and medical facilities to be built. Phase one of the mega-project will be completed within the next three years, inclusive of the following elements: Ernie Els Signature Golf Course; Water Marina; A founder luxury hotel; The resort’s entrance; The first of 200 off-plan luxury apartments and 100 neighbourhood villas; The infrastructure work which includes the roads and services for the entire resort.

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Description: Development of the proposed Nokeng fluorspar mine in the Gauteng Province. Sephaku plans to develop the Nokeng mine, immediately south of the Vergenoeg mine, to produce on average 130 000 t/y acid grade fluorspar. The mine complex will comprise an open cast mining operation, concentrator plant, tailings disposal facility (TDF) and associated infrastructure and services. The initial capital expenditure required for the Nokeng mine was estimated at R1.7 billion

Status: Underway

Industry: Infrastructure

Region: Gauteng 

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: Contract period : 21 months

Notes: A joint venture comprising DRA Projects and Group 5 Construction has been awarded the EPC contract for the mine, which includes the concentrator, access roads and the “selfbuild” portion of a power supply agreement concluded with Eskom. Construction is expected to be concluded within 21 months, with commissioning in November 2018 and first production in January or February 2019.

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Description: The project is located 270 kilometres south-west of Kimberley, the regional capital of the Northern Cape province. Importantly, the project has access to significant local and regional infrastructure, with mine infrastructure including a regional power grid feed, bitumen access roads, access to a bulk, treated water supply and a 1 900m landing strip. Several large commercial wind and solar generation projects are operational in the surrounding area and the mine is located just 48kms from a railway siding at Groveput with an open-access railway line connecting the site to the world-class export port of Saldanha Bay.

Status: Conceptual

Industry: Infrastructure

Region: Northern Cape

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: 2017 onwards.

Notes: Orion Gold has started a major new phase of drilling at its Prieska Zinc-copper project where the first two holes of the programme are designed to test mineralisation in the north-west target area. The initial drilling will also provide technical information that will allow Orion to plan and complete a drill programme.

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Description: Development of Tjate Platinum mine with associated infrastructure, smelter and refinery near Steelpoort in the Limpopo Province. Jubilee Platinum is planning a new $400m platinum mine producing about 262,000 oz/year from its Tjate prospect in South Africa’s western Bushveld. Project value: $510 million.

Status: Design

Industry: Infrastructure

Region: Limpopo

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: 2017 onwards.

Notes: The Project is independently judged to contain arguably the world’s largest undeveloped defined block of platinum ore.

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Description: Proposed establishment of a coal-fired power station on located on Farm Onbelyk 257 LQ, 17 kms north-west of Lehalale in the Limpopo Province. The power station will have a capacity of up to 1200MW to be developed in two phases of 600MW each. The power station will make use of either conventional pulverised coal or circulating fluidized bed boiler technology depending on the quality of the coal source to be used. The identified site for the power station is near the Grootgeluk coal mine, Matimba Power Station and Medupi Power Station which is currently under construction on land owned by Exxaro.

Status: Awarded

Industry: Infrastructure

Region: Limpopo

Sector: Private

Value: R 100 million+

Timing: 2015 onwards

Notes: Marubeni has signed an engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction, so that the civil partner will provide major equipment including boilers and turbines. Please see Awards.

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