The three-stage development plan features the construction of new hotels and resorts, entertainment areas, a marina, shopping malls and apartments

Construction is under way at SA's largest airport

MURRAY & Roberts Holdings, SA’s second-biggest construction company, says its order book increased as an expanding economy spurred building activity.

The Gauteng executive had also approved, last week, the creation of a new not-for-profit enterprise, the Gautrain Management Agency, which would essentially manage government's overall risk exposure to the mega project.

APEXHI Properties yesterday announced another empowerment transaction that will see a black-owned and managed company administering and managing a R400m office portfolio belonging to the listed property loan stock company.

Transport Minister Jeff Radebe and Eastern Cape Transport MEC Thobile Mhlahlo have launched the Blue Skyway Aviation Initiative at the Bhisho airport

Cape Town  Transnet’s property division, Propnet, is negotiating the sale of 127 noncore properties with a book value of R132m and a market value of about R211m to the national housing department.

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.

THE government looks as if it’s trying to nudge a decision out of aluminium producer Alcan on whether it intends to build a smelter in the Coega development zone in the Eastern Cape.

Two of the stories told in the new State of the Cities report offer rich insights into the way ordinary people live in SA’s post-apartheid cities but, at the same time, highlight the complex challenges city governments face.