National Treasury has updated its rules for public-private partnerships (PPPs) to ease the approval process for projects with a total cost of under R2 billion. Experts and the private sector have largely welcomed the amendments. On 7 February, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana published a notice in the Government Gazette amending regulations under section 16 of the Public Finance Management Act. Bongi Gwala spoke to Dr Hubert Joynt, programme manager & member of EXCO at Infrastructure South Africa as well as Wynand Dreyer, chair of the advocacy team at South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE).