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Masterplan adopted
The 289-page Masterplan for the SEZ includes
sections relating to energy, infrastructure, the
policy environment and socio-economic impact,
legal and governance issues, risk management,
environmental and spatial considerations,
investment approach, stakeholder management
and the financial plan.
The area
Three local municipalities make up the Sedibeng
District Municipality. Midvaal is the most rural
of the three local municipalities, with urban
development concentrated along routes R59
and R82 in the north-western parts. Midvaal
has strong regional linkages to major economic
cores. These include routes R59 and R82 and the
Vereeniging-Germiston railway line. The major
urban concentration of Lesedi Local Municipality
is located in Heidelberg/Ratanda nodes, along the
N3 freeway at its intersection with Provincial Route
R42, east of the Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve.
Heidelberg is the seat of the municipality. Emfuleni
in the west is home to the towns synonymous
with steel, Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging, and
the Sasol petrochemical complex to the south of
Sedibeng in the Free State Province.
The Sedibeng District, host of the proposed Vaal SEZ, comprises three
local municipalities and is strategically located both in terms of highways
and railways and in relation to three economically-powerful
metropolitan municipalities, Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane.
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The SEZ
by the end
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MoU signed with North
West University and Vaal
University of Technology to
collaborate on revitalisation and
industrialisation of Vaal Region,
February 2023.
Appointment of
engineering consultancy:
to establish townships and
to conduct Environmental
Impact Assessment, Q1 of
FY 2023/24.
Application for official
designation as SEZ: Gauteng
MEC, approved; sent to
Ministers of Finance and Trade,
Industry and Competition, Q1
of FY 2023/24.
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