The size of the project coupled with the very strong impact it will have on domestic economic activity will facilitate activity in the other sectors of the economy such as food production in agriculture, manufacturing, building and construction, and transportation.
Even a country like South Africa, where supply constraints did not originate, faced price pressures from more expensive imports, shortages of key inputs, elevated shipping costs and the depreciation of the rand as financial markets repriced the outlook for global interest rates. Worldwide inflation pressures have forced monetary policy normalisation.