James Hall
MBABANE - Delay in the
completion of Swaziland's Mbabane-Ngwenya highway and resulting cost overruns are likely because of a glitch in a resettlement scheme for residents displaced by the new route.
Of the three current highway construction projects in the kingdom, the route connecting the capital city of Mbabane with the Oshoek Border post at Ngwenya is the costliest and most urgently needed.
The Oshoek crossing is the border post most utilised by road freight traffic from Gauteng to Swaziland. The absence of a railway line entering the western side of the kingdom means some South African shippers prefer to transport cargo by road through Oshoek and down to the Matsapha industrial site rather than move it by rail north through Komatipoort before descending into Swaziland.
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