Wild Coast smart city plans - but no budget or timelines yet

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New South African smart city planned in unexpected location

The ANC has been working on plans for a new South African smart city between Port St Johns and Margate on the Wild Coast, reports the Sunday Times.

Minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma presented the plan at the ANC's national executive committee lekgotla earlier this month.
 
27 years in power and the ANC only now chooses to develop the wild coast, what's worse these people have been ignored by the ANC for the past 27 years still voted for them all this time.
 
27 years in power and the ANC only now chooses to develop the wild coast, what's worse these people have been ignored by the ANC for the past 27 years still voted for them all this time.
Spent some time down there recently.

My understanding from the locals was that they don't want radical development - but access to decent clinics and schools would be appreciated.

Personally, I worry that all these developments are going to mess up that incredible coastline, badly.
 
Please have some FAITH

It will be completed well over budget and definitely not on time .

If it ever gets off the ground.

There is nothing out there unless they are going to open a Hazenile Mine .
 
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There was meant to be a bridge built somewhere there. Is that done yet?
 
Deja vu

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DA Shadow MEC for Human Settlements, Sanele Magaqa, inspects a site on the outskirts of Ward 7, in Great Kei Municipality, where over 500 toilets have been erected, with no houses to accompany them.
 
The only plus side to this is they plan to build something where there's relatively little. Whether there'll be actual execution is another argument all together.
 
DON'T develop it. Preserve the nature we have left.
Those 2 things don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Personally though I feel that the major population centres on the coast and Lowveld are poorly connected, it's pretty obvious that you can cut the road distance between Cape Town and Durban by 400km.

Long term economically it makes sense to improve the connection between the countries 2nd and 3rd biggest cities.

I wonder how much difference the N2 project makes in that regard
 
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