Full steam ahead for Ekurhuleni's aerotroplis dream

Ekurhuleni’s Executive Mayor, Councillor Mondli Gungubele, says the Gauteng region’s proposed aerotropolis will target several development areas, including job creation. Addressing over 700 delegates at the Airport Cities World Conference and Exhibition, he said Ekurhuleni was perfectly positioned as an airport city as it was home to major national and global brands, the region offered the largest rail shunting station in Africa and Gillooly’s interchange was one of the busiest on the continent. “If we don’t take advantage of two major assets already in existence: the OR Tambo International Airport and the manufacturing sector that has earned the city the reputation as the continent’s ‘workshop’, then we will have robbed our people of an opportunity to realise a better life,” Gungubele said. CAPTION Mondli Gungubele