[sustran] Bicycles for Everybody in South Africa

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

      South African Bike Factory in New Phase


http://www.bike-eu.com/news/3337/south-african-bike-factory-in-new-phase.html

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The Shova Kalula project to provide a bike 
for everyone in South Africa has entered a new phase. The national 
Department of Transport (DoT) has issued an 'expression of interest' to 
establish a bicycle manufacturing plant in South Africa to produce 
bicycles for its Shova Kalula (=Bicycles for Everybody) project.

The project, which aims to ensure the roll-out of one-million bicycles 
by 2014, forms part of government's action programme and is expected to 
contribute to government's anti-poverty strategy and second economy 
interventions. It is to promote the use of non-motorised transport, 
especially for low-income households.

In 2007 Shova Kalula got the presidential blessing at the congress of 
the South African Department of Transport and was renamed 'Shova Kalula 
Million Bike Programme'. At that time the target for the first 
production year and affordability programme was set to 60,000 units, 
80,000 for the second year and 100,000 for the third year, with a 
personal commitment of Minister of Transport Radebe to achieve a 
production level of one million bicycles by 2014.

"The Shova Kalula project had already ensured the distribution of 59,000 
bicycles, 26,000 of which have been assembled in South Africa during the 
2008/9 financial year", commented DoT spokesperson Sam Monareng.

Monareng also told "Engineering News Online" that it had asked the 
Department of Trade and Industry to assist in evaluating the bids 
received under the 'expression of interest'. He said that only one 
manufacturing plant was being planned and that a specific province or 
region had not been determined.

/Photo: Ron Thompson/

For related items on Shova Kalula, click here 
<http://www.bike-eu.com/search-results/shova%20kalula/>

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