/ 6 February 2023

Smart city remains but a dream

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Build-up was a let-down: Little has come of the planned Lanseria Smart City, north of Johannesburg, which was to house half a million residents. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Three years after Ramaphosa proposed it, the land earmarked for the Lanseria urban development remains just veld

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