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SITEKI – The Vuvulane Town Board is on the verge of allocating 500 plots to residents and businesses within the town’s periphery.
Government, through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, has further pumped in E3 million towards the facilitation of road designs and development project that stretches 11km from the main road adjacent to a dam to the Vuvulane Town centre, which is the bus rank.
Vuvulane Town is situated in the midst of sugarcane farmers’ fields and that of the Royal Eswatini Sugar (RES) Corporation.
The gravel road services households and vehicles, mainly trucks and tractors situated within the town’s periphery.
According to the Vuvulane Town Board Town Clerk, Melusi Hlanze, this amount has been allocated only for the road project and the town has already hired a consulting firm busy with the designs of this project.
Hlanze said the plots would be specifically allocated to the town’s residents and businesses that would then access funding for their developments. He said even though the process was still to be sanctioned by the ministry, this initiative was underway.
Development
“We are grateful to government for approving this amount that will spearhead the development prospects of the town. Roads are an important infrastructure in the development of a town, and we are optimistic that once the road has been completed, more business initiatives will be kick-started within this town,” he said. The town clerk further appealed to the private sector and individuals to support the town’s development initiatives that would catapult the town’s prospects of meeting the required standard of being a centre of businesses for farmers.
“I would like to pay a special tribute to the councillors who have been supportive in all the development initiatives that the town has embarked on,” Hlanze said.
Meanwhile, Vuvulane Town is situated between Mhlume and Tambankulu areas and surrounded by sugarcane fields owned by farmers and RES Corporation.
The town is steadily growing, following government’s hiring of a new town clerk to implement all development programmes within the ministry’s development plan framework.