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Durban's new airport nears completion
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DagegeN
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Looks nice.
But i hate to be a prophet of doom. AFAIK they failed to plan / build a fuel line to the airport
Just to give you an idea JHB international takes on roughly 35 million Lt " 35 000 000 " of jet fuel per week
But i hate to be a prophet of doom. AFAIK they failed to plan / build a fuel line to the airport
Just to give you an idea JHB international takes on roughly 35 million Lt " 35 000 000 " of jet fuel per week
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Patty : Do please explain why its a white elephant in your eyes.
DagegeN : A large number of airports on this planet don't have fuel lines, they truck the jet fuel in. DIA was in the special position of being right next door to the refinary effectively.
DagegeN : A large number of airports on this planet don't have fuel lines, they truck the jet fuel in. DIA was in the special position of being right next door to the refinary effectively.
Having the airport right next door to the refinery always seemed like a rather stupid idea to me. Trucking the fuel in is minor logistics.
@Patty: In case you didn't read, Capacity at Durban International is expected to reach its limit by 2015, Oh and that makes way for - Durban port's current upgrading and development masterplan
So do you have a better proposal?
@Patty: In case you didn't read, Capacity at Durban International is expected to reach its limit by 2015, Oh and that makes way for - Durban port's current upgrading and development masterplan
So do you have a better proposal?
Pity about the name, I have a problem with naming any building after a mass-murderer. We could just have called it the "Hitler Airport", the "Stalin Airport" or the "Robert Mugabe Airport".
Would have equated to much the same thing.
Would have equated to much the same thing.
Kosmik
Honorary Master
Que?
So because it's named after one of the greatest zulu kings, in the ancient zulu kingdom, its wrong? I think it's apt for where it is.
If you define as mass-murderer as great, then so be it. For me it says a lot about the values of our country.
Read up a bit on Shaka, and you will see what I mean.
...and so are the 2010 stadia, the Gautrain, th BRT etc. Basically, all the developments post 1994 are white elephants
Yeah nothing says "Welcome" like the stench of the Durban south industrial basin
Agreed. Then again given the current regime it's probably fits :erm:
Hello, he lived in the 17th century, when wars were the order of the day.
Can't exactly pit him against the likes of Hitler, Mugabe, etc unless you just want to troll
...and so are the 2010 stadia, the Gautrain, th BRT etc. Basically, all the developments post 1994 are white elephants
Actually the land at La Mercy was earmarked to be an airport way back in 1969 before ACSA even existed.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Naming the airport King Shaka helps entrench it in the KwaZulu-Natal region as he is an internationally known historical figure... I can't think of a better name to call the airport given its location, and how it will help boost tourism.
Kosmik
Honorary Master
Love how people just consider you ignorant because they don't agree with you.
Yep and yep.
I knew that.
However, the fact remains that the project was canned in the early 1980s and was only seriously revived in 2004, incidentally after SA was awarded the right to host 2010 world cup.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
The project was revived before SA was awarded the right to host the 2010 World Cup JungleBoy....
It was a necessity and would have had to happen sooner or later.
It was a necessity and would have had to happen sooner or later.
Ah, so because that was the milieu it was acceptable. Well, I could argue that it was the milieu in South Africa for white people to be racist, and question why the names like D.F. Malan, BJ Voster et al. were scrapped. It's the same argument as yours, though perhaps a bit more localised.
Speaking of which, Jan Smuts was one of the greatest South Africans that lived, and he was constantly trying to extend the rights of blacks. Of course, he couldn't argue too strongly as he was operating in a parliamentary framework and any policies that were too liberal for the (white, voting) people of the time would be soundly rejected. AFAIR he lost the elections in 1948 over apartheid. So why was Jan Smuts airport renamed?
Secondly, dicatator like characters have existed throughout history and don't actually really fit into one era or another. One can go back into biblical times and find cases of this, through the Roman times, through the dark ages, through the renaissance, right into the 20th century. Stalin and Hitler were recent, so was Pol Pot and Mao Zedong (Tse Tsung). Mugabe is still in power. Darfur is 21st century. Perhaps you could argue that the 20th Century was one of the worst for dictators. Kind of scraps your milieu argument, doesn't it?
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I am not speaking about Shaka the warrior, I'm speaking about Shaka the dictator and committer of genocide.
http://www.zulu-culture-history.com/shaka_zulu_life.htm
As a counter argument, I will offer that he was the greatest military commander in Africa - and was truly a great warrior.
Again, Stalin is probably the best known Russian of all times, doesn't mean you want to name an airport after him.
One might argue that Cetshwayo is a better choice. After all, he was King during the Battle of Isandlwana - probably the greatest military victory of the Zulu's ever, considering the much superior fire power they were up against. Cetshwayo was also much more peace loving.
You hardly showed much insight in your previous quote, perhaps some reasoning as to why he was "one of the greatest kings" might give your argument more credibility.
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I have my doubts about that. Afterall, 30 years had gone past without any construction taking place!!!
Without 2010 serving as a catalyst, I doubt that it would have got off the ground.