Bakwena
International Finance in Johannesburg

Bakwena was initially backed by a strong grouping of local and international construction companies, who have experience in all aspects of running a successful toll road concession, and financial institutions.
Bakwena have taken the time to make all our Toll Plazas GPS coordinates available to you as a download for your GPS device.

Bakwena offers thousands of motorists safer and more efficient roads, while assisting with roadside emergencies and collecting tolls. Bakwena was initially backed by a strong grouping of local and international construction companies, who have experience in all aspects of running a successful toll road concession, as well as financial institutions. The sponsor-group was led by Dragados, the world’s leading operator of toll road and transport infrastructure concessions and Murray & Roberts, a well established South African construction company. The South African Infrastructure Fund and COFIDES (Spain) were the major non-sponsor shareholders. The initial construction works were undertaken by a design and construct joint venture (Platinum JV) consisting of Dragados of Spain and the local firms of Murray & Roberts, Concor and Wilson Bailey Holmes-Ovcon (WBHO). Since the initial construction works were completed and traffic patterns were established, the construction shareholders have divested and sold their shareholding to the remaining financial institutional shareholders. The toll road is being operated and maintained by Pt Operational Services (Pty) Ltd, a special purpose company comprising Abertis, a Spanish operator and Tolcon, a South African based toll operator within the Murray & Roberts Group of companies. Funding for the initiation of the Bakwena project was initially raised from the private sector. The shareholders committed to pay R 700 million and five local and international banking institutions arranged the R 2.3 billion structured lending facilities. The following banking institutions were instrumental in co-ordinating the lending facility for the initial Bakwena project funding requirements. The refinancing culminated in a change of shareholding with the foreign and local contractors divesting their shareholding to the remaining financial institutional shareholders.