{"id":876958,"date":"2026-09-25T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=876958"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:47:28","slug":"state-owned-company-looking-for-a-r44-billion-private-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/876958\/state-owned-company-looking-for-a-r44-billion-private-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"State-owned company looking for a R44 billion private partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa\u2019s state-owned ports and rail operator is looking for a private partner to expand and operate a key manganese corridor that will cost as much as R44 billion to roll out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transnet issued a request for qualifications for the Ngqura manganese export corridor that runs from mines in the Northern Cape province to ports in the Eastern Cape on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The harbours at Port Elizabeth and Ngqura \u2014 two of several where the steelmaking ingredient leaves South Africa \u2014 have become \u201cfragmented and inefficient, \u201d resulting in significant road haulage, increased logistics costs and growing environmental and social impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upgrade will form part of the logistics giant\u2019s private sector participation programme, \u201cthrough which the company seeks to attract investment and leverage private-sector expertise to strengthen infrastructure performance,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The southern African country has some of the world\u2019s largest reserves of the mineral, used in steel production and battery manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline for applications is 26 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transnet is looking for a private partner to expand a key manganese corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":862911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2103406161982521422","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2216023355884730","_sma_instagram_post_id":"18115004167812016","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[20013,2138],"class_list":["post-876958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-port-elizabeth","tag-transnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876961,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876958\/revisions\/876961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}