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HAPPY: Polokwane mayor Freddy Greaver yesterday. PHOTO: Elijar MUSHIANA

HAPPY: Polokwane mayor Freddy Greaver yesterday. PHOTO: Elijar MUSHIANA

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RESIDENTS of Seshego near Polokwane in Limpopo are set to benefit from the construction of a new shopping centre in the area.

The centre is due to be opened in October next year, but the construction phase is expected to continue to provide job opportunities to local residents.

Following construction of the Mall of the North, City Centre and Makro Polokwane in recent years, the Moolman Group had partnered with local businessmen Jaco Nel and Sam Mabotja to develop the new mall. which is situated at the corner of Nelson Mandela and Polokwane Drive - the two main roads connecting Seshego and Polokwane.

Speaking during a sod-turning ceremony yesterday, Pieter Beyers of the Moolman Group said the shopping centre would be a community-based facility.

"The shopping centre will primarily cater for the needs of the Seshego community. It will also serve some outlying areas like Makgofe, Mabokelele and Mmotong," Beyers said.

He said the 15000-square metre shopping centre would be anchored by the 3500-square metre Shoprite Supermarket and 2500-square metre Cambridge Foods Supermarket.

Beyers added that his company had invested R200-million in the project.

The centre, which will house 40 shops, 70% of which had already been "pre-let," would also boast a medical centre and banks.

Developer Jannie Moolman said 400 jobs would be created during the construction phase while another 300 employment opportunities would be created after the official opening.

"A large amount of these jobs will be for the people of Seshego and surrounding areas," he said.

An excited Polokwane executive mayor Freddy Greaver said: "We need to work together for the sake of our people.

"They will have no need to go to Polokwane after construction of this facility."

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Nov 15, 2012

Shredder

A mall for the same amount (even smallernyana) as NkandlaGate
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Nov 15, 2012

ApelMankotsana

While we compain about closing the gap between the rich and the poor, we should also raise a concern about closing a gap between developing the already developed and the under-developed Black communities...Seshego is just 5 kilometres from Polokwane...We still have Mall of the North and others which serves the Seshego community yet in the whol of Sekhukhune there is not even a single mall....
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Nov 15, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

People need lifetime or longterm jobs.
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Nov 15, 2012

antie

katakata, shops in the mall will provide those jobs.
Shredder, and this smaller project will even provide jobs.
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Nov 15, 2012

MGEEZ

@antie
katakata, shops in the mall will provide those jobs.
Shredder, and this smaller project will even provide jobs.
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True on both counts!!!
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Nov 15, 2012

ntshware-ke-yawa

But I don't see this mall stopping the people of Seshego from shopping in Polokwane.Polokwane will always be in their blood.
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Nov 15, 2012

THEmadame2B-BBEE

wrong place to set-up the mall, Limpopo
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Nov 15, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

@antie
@MGEEZ
katakata, shops in the mall will provide those jobs.
Shredder, and this smaller project will even provide jobs.
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It wont take two or sometimes even a year to build the mall with 40 shops Antie after then people go back to square man.

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Nov 15, 2012

Selab

Is Juju involved in building this shopping center?
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Nov 15, 2012

antie

Katakata, ai. Woolies, Shoprite, Edgars, Foschini, Truworths, Nando's, KFC, Game....to name but a few. They will all open shops in the mall, and they will all require employees. Yes, construction jobs are short term jobs, but at least long term jobs are created with this structure, unlike certain other, more expensive structures.
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