The past few years have seen major central business districts (CBDs) in South Africa transform before our very eyes. Investors and property developers are rushing towards city centres with the aim of converting old and often dilapidated building into sound property investments. The driving force behind this resurgence of investors, and property developers alike, to the CBs is manifold; among other reasons are the improved transport service systems (e.g. the Bus Rapid Transit/BRT & the Gautrain in Johannesburg and Pretoria), tighter security measures, and promised tax incentives within identified city’s urban development zones which form part of city’s integrated development
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The controversy around the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mvezo in the Eastern Cape Province South Africa has led me to question the future of museums development in the country.  However, my reservations about the future museums development in the country do not only emanate from the controversy around the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mvezo.  The Robben Island Museum where most of the South African political activists, including Nelson Mandela among others, were detained has been surrounded by controversy in the recent past; varying from missmanagement of funds to lack of capacity by those tasked with the responsibility of managing and promoting the institution. The question that
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