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The article offers a report related to the construction industry in South Africa. It states that the booming construction industry in the country will need to double its present output of one hundred billion annually to meet the public and private sector growth targets leading to 2014. South Africa announced that three hundred seventy-two billion would be spent on infrastructure development over the next few years as a part of their campaign to halve the poverty level in the country.

The article reports on the effort of the finance minister of South Africa, Trevor Manuel, in helping the country's economic growth. With a 41 billion Rand revenue overrun, Manuel has delivered a stimulus to economic growth in a generally expansionary budget. Manuel has increased the treasury's real growth domestic product growth to five percent for the next three years starting 2006.