Statue of King Shaka

Construction of a 106 metre high landmark statue honouring King Shaka. The statue will be on a three-storey podium, which will also include support facilities. These will include a museum, conference centre, an upmarket ethnic hotel with world class finishes, a shopping centre, restaurant and art and craft stalls enabling rural craftmakers to get direct access to the steady stream of visitors. The statue itself will cost about R200 million and the whole project is going to be built for about R1,2 billion. Several proposed sites were considered, but in the end, the final decision was that it should be on the uThekela River, about 90km from Durban., KwaZulu-Natal.