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THOSE of us who live in SA's major cities (37% of us, according to a new report) know very well the dramatic contrasts which make up our large urban environments, but we seem to struggle to come up with new ways of thinking about where we are going.

Transport Minister Jeff Radebe has officially opened a new R30 million Port Elizabeth airport terminal - and announced that his department is facilitating the ferrying of visitors from England and Ireland directly to the city.

Alcan, the world's second-largest producer of aluminium, would decide in June whether to go ahead with plans to build a $2 billion (R12.8 billion) smelter near Port Elizabeth, it said yesterday

THE controversial Coega industrial development zone offers "enormous" potential value to the country's much-vaunted motor vehicle industry as it could present a solution to the industry's logistical woes.

Local and national government are devising plans to reverse urban decay.

South Africa, hoping to copy the miracle that created Asia's tiger economies, is building a multibillion-rand duty-free industrial park, the first in a series aimed at boosting economic growth.

South Africa's largest industrial development zone (IDZ), the Coega IDZ outside Port Elizabeth, is "ready" if and when Canadian aluminium giant Alcan makes up its mind over the US$2.2bln aluminium smelter project originally agreed by Pechiney to be located there, before Pechiney's takeover by Alcan late last year.

Spoornet said yesterday that the construction of the railway line linking the port of Coega to Port Elizabeth was firmly on track.

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The multibillion-rand Ibhubezi Gas project, which was launched recently in Cape Town, has already had a significant and positive impact on the property markets of Langebaan and Saldanha.