Isolated in faraway Cape Town, Parliament is too isolated from the people of South Africa, EFF leader Julius Malema is due to argue in that same legislature, so it should be moved to Tshwane.
Petrusburg has several incidental advantages. It is bisected by the N8, making for easy road access. It is less than an hour away from the Kimberley airport, and only a little over an hour from Bram Fischer International in Bloemfontein – a trip faster than that from OR Tambo to just about any viable site for Parliament around Pretoria.
That also puts it close to two provincial capitals , and Petrusburg offers ample empty space to recreate the assembly chambers, administrative offices, housing, and other infrastructure Parliament requires.However, while Petrusburg makes for a central point, it is not central for most South Africans.
Draw a line between the three biggest population centres , and you end up closer to Free State town on the other side of Bloemfontein,. It is closer to both Durban and Johannesburg, as the crow flies, though not on a national highway, and from Durban the crow would fly over Lesotho, while the N3 that skirts the Drakensberg make for a longer trip.
Lesotho becomes a greater impediment the more cities you add to the mix. Calculate a centre point for not only the four big cities, but also Gqeberha, Pietermaritzburg, East London, and Bloemfontein, and the middle of South Africa swings towards the east, and a little bit south, until you end up in a patch of farmland not too far south of Maseru – on the Lesotho side of the border.
The government of Lesotho did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its willingness to grant South Africa a concessions to use that land, and its ability to defend the patch should SA decide to annex it.
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