With less than two weeks to kick-off, world soccer boss Sepp Blatter yesterday gave the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium a big thumbs-up.

Lonrho has announced that Kwikbuild has won R28.5m of new business by the SA government.

The Eastern Cape saw its biggest ever auctions recently when two shopping centres, one in East London and the other in Port Elizabeth, went under the Auction Alliance hammer

Plans are afoot to construct an 81- metre high wind measurement mast on a farm near Kidd’s Beach that could be the precursor to a fully- fledged wind farm.

Nedbank Corporate Property Finance: Cape has funded the development and completion of a R72 million production, warehousing and distribution facility in Bellville, Cape Town on behalf of Swish Property Group.

Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke says Cape Town pitch should be the benchmark for all others.

Transnet will spend R753m on railways in the Eastern Cape over the next five years.

Interest in commercial livestock and irrigation farms in the central Cape provinces – predominantly the Karoo and Kalahari regions – is now coming to the fore, says Wayne Rubidge, manager for Pam Golding Properties in these regions.

Plans to ensure the success of Mandela Bay’s R2,2bn soccer stadium beyond next year’s World Cup were spelt out by the head of the company appointed.

The construction contract for Transnet's new administration building and accompanying facilities at Coega's Port of Ngqura has been completed by Grinaker-LTA, a subsidiary of the JSE-listed Aveng Group