Nowhere is Africa more developed than along
its trade and industrial corridors; yet they also provide graphic
lessons on how dreams die in the crossfire of economic development.
Villages and towns took root and grew across Africa along routes carved over centuries by road, rail and rivers. Some of them grew into cities, while others succumbed to neglect and failure.
Some threw up their first shacks, trading posts and saloons when traffic meant lumbering mule-and ox-drawn carts. A century later, many surviving cities’ populations number in seven figures. Trains and trucks thunder through them.
Much money and muscle is being pumped into converting to an industrial corridor the N3 from Johannesburg to Durban via the Free State to grow the regions and decongest SA’s busiest land transport link. It is called the Durban-Free State-Johannesburg Logistics and Industrial Corridor.
The N3 groans with traffic, much of it growing fleets of very heavy cargo leviathans. It is SA’s most important transport artery.
Villages and towns took root and grew across Africa along routes carved over centuries by road, rail and rivers. Some of them grew into cities, while others succumbed to neglect and failure.
Some threw up their first shacks, trading posts and saloons when traffic meant lumbering mule-and ox-drawn carts. A century later, many surviving cities’ populations number in seven figures. Trains and trucks thunder through them.
Much money and muscle is being pumped into converting to an industrial corridor the N3 from Johannesburg to Durban via the Free State to grow the regions and decongest SA’s busiest land transport link. It is called the Durban-Free State-Johannesburg Logistics and Industrial Corridor.
The N3 groans with traffic, much of it growing fleets of very heavy cargo leviathans. It is SA’s most important transport artery.
