The logistics collapse — why centralisation and roads funding disparity are strangling SA’s infrastructure

Daily Maverick | 16.07.2026 05:36
South Africa’s current economic trajectory is tethered entirely to the structural survival of its logistics corridors, primary freight routes and regional arteries. Yet, beneath the political rhetoric of infrastructure-led growth, the institutional machinery governing our three spheres of government has hardened into legal silos and fiscal battlegrounds.