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Insightfully, Deloitte says that Africa is ready for Smart Cities, as they detailed it in an insightful report titled "Africa is ready to leapfrog the competition Through Smart Cities Technology". All Cities are unique from their geographic layout to their...
A bridge is, among other things, a piece of land-use policy disguised as engineering. The new fixed crossing linking Botswana and Zambia at Kazungula does not merely replace a ferry; it changes the economics of land, warehousing and logistics real estate on both banks...
A factory cannot export what a corridor cannot move. SADC has restated its intention to lift manufactured exports to 50 percent of the bloc's total exports by 2030, from a base below 20 percent, but the target says nothing directly about the ports, rail links,...
A rail corridor, a power interconnector or a port upgrade planned under SADC's Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan today will still be carrying freight, electrons and cargo in 2050. The master plan's own phasing runs only to 2027. That gap —...
A regional tourism programme can commit SADC's member states to coordinated recovery on paper in a matter of weeks. The physical infrastructure that recovery depends on — border posts, airport terminals, the road corridors linking conservation areas across...
There are nine Trans-African Highways, all under development and enhancements, and the fourth one - Cairo-Gaborone-Cape Town, pass through Botswana and Zambia. At present, the Cape to Cairo trail passes through Botswana, into the Western territory of Zimbabwe, into...
As South African construction Industry representative negotiate for resumption of projects across the country, there has been the question of “what next”, as layoffs and revenue losses continue due to the impact of the Covid19 Pandemic. The impacts of the virus on the...
A border post is, before it is a legal concept, a physical structure — a queuing lane, a scanning bay, a warehouse for goods awaiting clearance, often a single road bridge carrying all cross-border freight for an entire province. As COVID-19 lockdowns spread across...
SADC approved its Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan in 2012, and one of its most cited operational instruments, the One Stop Border Post, exists precisely to answer a structural problem: corridors, borders, ports, rail and power networks that were built,...