Strategic Partnerships
The rustic Steelpoort Bridge on road D2219 in Ga-Malekane was installed in the late 1920s, and as such is now a cultural and heritage site and will be rehabilitated for pedestrian use, and will remain a nolstalgic landmark in the area, when a new modern and wider bridge is constructed.
RAL IN BREAKTHROUGH
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP MOA AS IT SECURES BRIDGE FUNDING
his day is going to remain etched in the minds of our people, both now and even those who still belong to the womb of the future. They will one day as they track history come to this realisation that this day was indeed an important day in the history of our province and, of course, as well as in the history of that region (Sekhukhune). I am quite very clear in my mind that many other leaders of our government in various provinces will definitely descend to Limpopo to come and want to find ways and means on how we (government and the private sector) found each other. These were the positive words of the contented MEC for the Limpopo Department of Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure (LDPWRI) Honourable Namane Dickson Masemola on how best
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government and the private sector can collaboratively work together in partnership to deliver services to communities within the province during the recent signing ceremony of a groundbreaking Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for the rehabilitation of the existing bridge and construction of the new Steelpoort Bridge on road D2219 in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo Province. The rehabilitation project will be for the preservation of the nearly 100 year-old existing single lane bridge, colloquially known as the ‘Steel Bridge’ or ‘Malekane Bridge’, that has been both a landmark and a bane of road D2219.
