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Mangaung (Bloemfontein metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses Metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below National (N) roads and Regional (R) roads. Each city's M roads are independently numbered. [1]
M62 (Central) – M61 – M62 – M63 – Start Toll Road – End Toll Road – M64 – M65 – M4 (Glencairn Heights) Central, Green Point, Three Anchor Bay, Sea Point, Bantry Bay, Clifton, Camps Bay, Bakoven, Llandudno, Hout Bay, Berg-en-dal, Scott Estate, Noordhoek, Crofters Valley, Sun Valley, Sunnydale, Capri, Glencairn Heights
It enters as Memorial Road, meeting the south-eastern terminus of the R31 road before meeting the N8 national route (which is coming from Bloemfontein) and co-signing with it northwards as Bultfontein Road. At the Long Street junction in the city centre, the N8 becomes Long Street westwards and the N12 becomes the road eastwards.
An earlier scheme, deviating considerably from the current numbering, is described in the 1970 Shell Road Atlas of South Africa and other contemporaneous sources: N1 - equivalent to the current N9 from George to Colesberg, and then the current N1 from there to Beitbridge (with deviations as some newer parts had yet to be built)
It enters as Schmidtsdrift Road, then Long Street, and reaches a junction with the N12, just west of the N12's intersection with the R64 (an alternative route to Bloemfontein). It turns south-east to be co-signed with the N12 as Bultfontein Road up to the Bishops Road junction, where the N12 turns south, leaving the N8 as the south-easterly road.
It is the third largest single-phase shopping mall to be built in Africa, [1] [2] but smaller than Gateway, Sandton City, Menlyn Park and Fourways Mall. [3] The total retail area is 130 000 square metres. The shopping mall has two main levels of shopping as well as an outdoor restaurant plaza which connects directly to the Waterfall City Park.
South Africa has four licensed mobile operators: MTN, Vodacom (majority owned by the UK’s Vodafone), Cell C (75% owned by Saudi Oger, an international telecommunications holdings firm), and 8ta, a subsidiary of Telkom. In 2012, mobile penetration was estimated at more than 10%, one of the highest rates in the world. [4]
South of the highway, it is the R72 road towards the East London CBD. [1] It begins by going northwest from the N2 interchange for 31 kilometres to the town of Macleantown, where it leaves the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. It continues northwest for another 21 kilometres to meet the R63 road at an intersection just north-east of Kei ...