Platfontein Lodge and Conference Centre outside Kimberley, built as an investment initiative by the Department of Tourism, has been closed because it was built on unstable soil and the foundation was of poor quality.
Gill GiffordPlatfontein Lodge and Conference Centre outside Kimberley, built as an investment initiative by the department of tourism, has been closed because it was built on unstable soil and the foundation was of poor quality.Parliamentary committees, after an oversight visit to the Northern Cape, have expressed concern over a Kimberley lodge, built as an investment initiative of the department of tourism, having been “rendered useless”.
On an inspection tour of the lodge they discovered it had been built on unstable soil and the foundation was of poor quality. The committees found the closure of the lodge was in direct conflict with plans for it to be an economic opportunity by attracting business in conferencing from Gauteng and the Western Cape.
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