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The biggest hospitality project since Sun City is nearing completion…👏 Valued at over R2 billion with 345 hotel rooms and 66 villas. It took almost two decades for them to find the perfect site on KwaZulu-Natal's North Coast. You’ve heard so much about it, and now you are about to walk through the construction site for yourself. Take a tour of South Africa’s first-ever Club Med Resort, which is well on its way to completion. Driving through the entrance of the 32-hectare resort, you cannot visualise just how big this project actually is. From a drone's-eye view, you can see construction workers working on 7 separate projects - each valued at R200-350 million. No phases of development here; everything on site runs simultaneously since day one of breaking ground. To put this into perspective, the development of a small convenience shopping centre (let’s say 10 000m2 in size) is valued at between R80-100 million. The project value of this Club Med would be identical to building 21 of these convenience shopping centres - all at the same time. That should give you a pretty good idea of just how colossal the Club Med resort project is. In November last year, they recorded over 1.3 million man-hours of on-site local labour. Insane and fabulous for our employment sector. And the most impressive part? No construction delays. Club Med is well on its way to opening on its initial grand opening date in July 2026. Thank you, STRUXIT civil engineers, for the invitation to tour this massive project. Good luck to the on-site team in the final stretch.