Tshwane Market achieved a record level of infrastructure investment during the 2025/26 financial year, spending nearly its entire capital budget on critical upgrades.

Between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, the market spent R12,965,880.36 of its allocated R13 million capital expenditure (CAPEX) budget, representing an expenditure rate of 99.7%.

The city said the investment forms part of its ongoing efforts to modernise the market’s infrastructure across the capital city and ensure it continues to operate efficiently while providing a safe and reliable trading environment.

The Tshwane Market is South Africa’s second-largest fresh produce market and plays a vital role in the regional food supply chain, providing fresh, affordable produce to residents across Tshwane, Gauteng, neighbouring provinces and countries in southern Africa.

“The improvements to the Tshwane Market infrastructure, included additional fruit ripening rooms and expanding cold storage rooms to increase space utilization, serve to increase the market’s facilities and capacity for handling and ripening fruit and vegetables, increasing food security in Tshwane, South Africa’s fastest growing metro” said MMC for Economic Devlopment and Spatial Planning Sarah Mabotsa.

“This expanded infrastructure serves to increase capacity of the market. The market had previously been unable to fully accommodate increasing volumes of fresh produce and this had constrained opportunities for expansion, increased turnover and greater job creation” said Mabotsa.

Mabotsa said the upgrading of the ripening centre and purchase of additional racking space for the market’s cold storage facilities has increased capacity by the doubling of the pallet storage capacity.

“This will increase trade volumes and improve operational efficiency. The increased capacity will also generate more revenue for the market, further improving the financial position of the city.”

She said city is committed to building a resilient, competitive, and sustainable fresh produce market that serves as a cornerstone of economic revitalisation and inclusive growth within the municipality.

“The R13 million capital investment into the market infrastructure has begun to reverse a years-long trend of limited and declining capital investment into the market.”

Mabotsa said these investments into infrastructure at the market aim to respond to the needs of producers and traders for increased efficiency, enhanced capacity and the need for more food provision for our residents and the region,

According to Mabotsa the city has taken a deliberate decision to strengthen the Tshwane Market’s competitive position, enhance revenue generation, and advance its strategic mandate in line with the City’s Economic Revitalisation Strategy, which was adopted by Council in April 2025.

“The Tshwane Economic Revitalisation Strategy is the capital city’s roadmap to increasing economic growth to at least 3,9% and adding at least 80,000 new jobs to the Tshwane metro economy by 2029.”

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