Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele yesterday launched the much-anticipated S'hamba Sonke programme in Durban and hoped to create 70000 jobs
Although the tender for the Open Road Tolling system project was awarded to a foreign company, more than 90% of staff on the project will be South African.
The transport dept's decision to temporarily suspend the implementation of electronic toll-road fees in Gauteng was made to avoid 'choking' the economy.
A high-speed rapid rail link is on the cards for South Africa, linking Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
Work on Durban’s new R7bn international airport is well on track with 80% of the project completed and just the 'lipstick' left to apply.
Only a few aesthetic touch- ups, such as road construction around the precinct and the laying of grass, remain to be completed at the Nelson Mandela Bay 2010 stadium.
The King Shaka International Airport at La Mercy will be operational in 2010’s first quarter, when the current facility, Durban International Airport, will be decommissioned.
A high-speed train linking Johannesburg and Durban in under three hours had been “agreed in principle” and was just waiting for approval, KwaZuluNatal’s transport department head, Kwazi Mbanjwa, said yesterday.
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