After a 13-year delay, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Sport, Arts and Culture yesterday announced that the tender for the R4-million 1860 Indian indenture monument had finally been awarded to a service provider and that construction was imminent.
The monument will be erected at uShaka Beach (next to the uShaka Marine World parking lot).
Director at the department, Vusi Shongwe said they had been mandated in 2022 to manage the procurement process of finding a service provider to execute the design which had been finalised by the 1860 Commemoration Monument Committee.
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