uShaka eyes new climbing attraction

Published Sep 29, 2014

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Durban - A rope adventure course is on the cards for uShaka Marine World as one of the new attractions to the theme park.

Photographs of the planned course type, based on a Swiss design, show visitors attached to ropes, gliding along steel cables from platforms, and walking via stepping blocks suspended mid-air.

 

A report to the eThekwini Municipality executive committee on Friday said uShaka was 10 years old and needed to introduce fresh attractions.

 

Ushaka sought authority to enter into an 84-month contract with a service provider, but the matter was deferred after the committee queried whether the correct section of the Municipal Financial Management Act had been referred to by uShaka in the service contract and asked that clarity be sought from National Treasury.

The report, signed by uShaka chief financial officer Prakash van den Berg, said: “Based on our market research, 84 months would be the optimum period for us to derive the most benefit from this project. The service provider would be engaged via public tender.”

The annexure to the report contained photographs of courses from a Swiss company, Ropeglider Adventures, on which, the report said, uShaka’s attraction would be based.

Some of the courses appear similar to KwaZulu-Natal’s Karkloof Canopy Tours but via interconnected poles as opposed to trees.

The Mercury

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