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s a i c e KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE

9. Lesotho highlands Water Project originat- ◊ From top to bottom:
ing in the Maluti Mountains where the beautiful Katse ◊ Gateway shopping centre
and Mohale dams in Lesotho convey water along huge ◊ Pavilion Shopping Centre
tunnels which eventually enter South African soil at the ◊ Suncoast Casino
outlet in the Ash River near Bethlehem. ◊ Sibaya Casino

29°05’36.07” S, 28°22’56.24” E

10. Shopping malls and casinos in the form
of massive structures and parking areas are dotted
around Durban and Pietermaritzburg.

• At Gateway, north of Durban, a novel way was used
to clad the steel structures up to three-storey high
patterned concrete panels were poured in forms next
to the steel columns and subsequently tipped up
and fastened in place. This method has been quite
effective, fast and economical and provides a pleasing
facade.

29°43’34.54” S, 31°03’57.56” E

• The Pavilion Shopping Centre has massive steel
and glass domes dominating the sky line on the N3
towards Durban. The dome structures remind one of
the large influences of the Indian community on this
province to which they were brought as sugar cane
labourers in the early 1900s.

29°50’57.30” S, 30°56’05.42” E

• The Suncoast Casino in Durban was designed in an
art deco style reminiscent of the American architec-
ture of the 1930s.

29°50’02.98” S, 31°01’56.36” E

• Sibaya Casino on the hills of Umhlanga takes its
design from the Zulu heritage of the province.

29°43’29.93” S, 31°05’08.88” E

11. Roads, freeways, interchanges, passes
and bridges. Highways and byways in this province
boast many scenic routes and structures of note and
the engineering professionals in many cases could live

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