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41,116. Source: Airports Company South Africa [2][3] King Shaka International Airport (IATA: DUR, ICAO: FALE), abbreviated KSIA, pronounced as (Kīng Shāk (k)ā Internashonāl Ay (ir)port), is the primary international airport serving Durban, South Africa. It is located in La Mercy, KwaZulu-Natal, approximately 35 km (22 mi) north of the city ...
N3 (South Africa) The N3 is a national route in South Africa that connects Johannesburg and Durban, [1] respectively South Africa's largest and third-largest cities. Johannesburg is the financial and commercial heartland of South Africa, while Durban is South Africa's key port and one of the busiest ports in the Southern Hemisphere and is also ...
The Department of Transport is responsible for the regulation of all transportation in South Africa, including public transport, rail transportation, civil aviation, shipping, freight, and motor vehicles. According to the department's vision statement, "Transport [is] the heartbeat of South Africa's economic growth and social development!" [1]
The airport handled over 21 million passengers in 2017. The airport was originally known as Jan Smuts International Airport, [3] after the former South African Prime Minister. It was renamed Johannesburg International Airport in 1994 when the newly elected African National Congress government implemented a policy of not naming airports after ...
254,904,740. Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, Co-located with AFB Durban. Durban International Airport (formerly Louis Botha Airport) was the international airport of Durban from 1951 until 2010, when it was replaced by King Shaka International Airport, 60 kilometres (37 mi) to the north. The airport is co-located with AFB Durban.
R21 (South Africa) The R21 is a major north–south provincial route (with a freeway portion designated as a National Road) in eastern Gauteng Province, South Africa. [1][2] Built in the early 1970s, it remains one of two freeways (the other being the N1) linking Pretoria with Johannesburg, via the R24. As the eastern of the two freeways, it ...
Rail network in 1892 Rail network in 1906 Rail network in 1950. The first railway was from Cape Town to Wellington and was worked by a small locomotive in 1858. The first passenger-carrying service was a small line of about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) built by the Natal Railway Company, linking the town of Durban with Harbour Point, opened on 26 June 1860. [2]
South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier of South Africa. [4] Founded in 1934, the airline is headquartered in Airways Park at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and operates a hub-and-spoke network, serving 13 destinations in Africa and two intercontinental destinations to Perth, Australia and São Paulo, Brazil. [5]