Source: Ministry of Transport
Title: J Radebe: Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce & Industry
REMARKS BY J RADEBE, MP, MINISTER OF TRANSPORT, CAPE TOWN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, 20 September 2004
This is my first formal engagement with the Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and as such, I am delighted to be here to share a few thoughts, and in turn, to listen to any concerns that you have. Judging from recent and regular reports in the Cape-based media, there are a number of issues from the state of public transport, to what is happening in our ports, to the state of roads and congestion in the Cape Metro area, that I am sure you might wish to bring to my attention!
Let me begin, though, with a brief snapshot of the broader freight logistics situation in our country before homing in on the Western Cape and Cape Town specifically. In the process, I think the theme that you wanted me to look at, namely the way in which inter- and multi-modal transport systems actually function as the veins and arteries of any economy will emerge.
South Africa increasingly operates within a framework of constraints and opportunities determined by the global economic environment. This is no easy task, and as our President and government reiterates on an ongoing basis, given the inequalities of the global market place, the distorted distribution in productive resources world-wide, and the manner in which access to where the global action has developed unevenly so that even as many parts of the world now relate to each other in terms of the 'global village
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