{"id":845198,"date":"2025-12-02T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=845198"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:00:48","slug":"huge-shopping-mall-being-built-at-the-heart-of-a-new-r5-billion-smart-city-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/845198\/huge-shopping-mall-being-built-at-the-heart-of-a-new-r5-billion-smart-city-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge shopping mall being built at the heart of a new R5 billion smart city in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leratong City is poised to become South Africa\u2019s next smart city, with the new R5 billion development anchored by its own shopping centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Found within the borders of Mogale City in Western Gauteng, the new precinct aims to be a forward-thinking urban centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The construction of the 42,000sqm Leratong City shopping centre marks the first significant milestone in the development.\u00a0The mall is on track to open on 29 October 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Built on a once-barren stretch of the land, the project has made good progress since its launch on 5 June 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project draws inspiration from President Ramaphosa’s 2019 national Smart City pronouncement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city envisions urban spaces that are powered by technology, efficient, sustainable, and characterised by improved living standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smart City developments are purpose-built to counter persistent challenges, including unemployment, stagnant economic activity and social inequality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city is situated beside the long-standing Leratong Hospital, built in the early 1970s, and neighbouring Chamdor precinct.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The multi-billion-rand development aims to stimulate growth, create employment, and introduce advanced digital infrastructure into the project, ensuring that the benefits of progress are shared wisely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development is currently employing 495 workers, with over 20 SMMEs having been contracted from the surrounding wards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A project steering committee has also been established, and is mandated to provide oversight, champion community engagement and monitor compliance with urban development goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development aims to draw significant private-sector investment and generate ongoing opportunities and jobs through upcoming retail stores, food outlets, and a mini-taxi rank, and connected mall offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Leratong Smart City is envisioned as an intelligent urban district designed to stimulate local, regional, and provincial economic and infrastructure development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mega-project comprises approximately 15,000 housing units and public amenities, including schools, a private hospital, ECD centres, parks, transport nodes, and government service facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an investment value of R5 billion, it stands among the most significant developments in Mogale City over the next decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to the long-term vision, the municipality also completed the strategic construction of a 5-million-litre reservoir in Kagiso Extension 13 in 2024, located adjacent to the mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The infrastructure node ensures water supply to the broader Smart City development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While centred around the  Leratong Hospital precinct and neighbouring communities in Mogale City, the design of the development aims to go beyond its boundaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is positioned to drive urban regeneration across the West Rand, establishing a new economic nucleus and uplifting underdeveloped and underserved areas of the city through strategic densification and formalisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model aligns with the national and provincial goals for integrated human settlements, spatial justice and inclusive growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mogale City stated that the project also outlines a forward-looking blueprint for transforming township and peri-urban areas through innovative infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and intelligent mixed-use design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Construction has started on another huge shopping mall, which will anchor the new Leratong City in Gauteng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":845199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[22320],"class_list":["post-845198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-mogale-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845216,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845198\/revisions\/845216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}