Qumza Highway is the main road that leads through Mdantsane from
East London city centre to an industrial area at the end, Fort Jackson.
If you take the right turn - off you will find it !
Turn again and you are on it.
Entering the suburb of Mdantsane.
In 2011, just before Buffalo City became a Metro more than 200 new, modern streetlights were installed along Qumza Highway in Mdantsane." The face of Mdantsane" was about to change.
The initiative was part of
the Mdantsane Urban Renewal Project (MURP) and a budget of over 6,9 million Rand was available for the project at the time. There was however great concern how to safeguard and protect the new street lanterns with the light-fittings consisting of two 150 watt metal
halide or white light lamps, allowing for minimal "upward light pollution". According to a government spokes person, the main challenge that the suburb of Mdantsane faced was vandalism with numerous attempts to steal cables that supply the poles and the lights. But the project did create jobs and two years later.......
And here they are. So Urban Renewal does take place in Mdantsane!
Or what do you think?
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