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Residents of the Stredford District Node in Orange Farm can look forward to a new sports complex designed with excellence that is unique to the region. 

The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) has completed the site establishment for the highly anticipated Chris Hani Sports Complex. This milestone marks the beginning of an exciting journey to create a cutting-edge sporting facility that will serve as a hub for athletes, sports enthusiasts and the local community.

The Chris Hani Sports Complex forms part of the Orange Farm Turnkey Programme. The JDA, the City of Johannesburg’s infrastructure development agency, is implementing the project on behalf of the City’s Community Development Department. 

The development objectives of the Chris Hani Sports Complex are:

• Intensifying the complex with sports related facilities
• Promoting the development of sports excellence in youth
• Promoting better integration between the sports complex and surrounding precinct
• Improving the legibility of the complex by providing defined links, clear gateway and entrance points

Completion of this landmark facility will serve as a platform for a hub of sporting excellence and inspire the next generation of sporting talent. The project encompasses the construction of multiple facilities including a multipurpose hall, athletics and soccer stadium, gatehouse, aquatics centre, a high performance centre. 

These multiple facilities will be designed in an integrated manner. The implementation of the facility will also adopt a design construction methodology and material palette that seek to amplify efficiency and ensure a contemporary design of high quality. The design will consider sustainability, energy generation and water harvesting from the individual buildings.

As part of the project, the JDA will also be undertaking public environment upgrades along Moyane Drive and 16th Street, which will see the introduction of safe pedestrian crossings, paved sidewalks, street furniture, bins, benches, lights, and trader stalls as well as soft landscaping. The upgrade will improve the environment and enhance the pedestrian experience.

“Construction of the Chris Hani Sports Complex will be in three phases and we as the JDA are thrilled to have reached this significant milestone of the first phase of this facility,” said JDA Acting CEO Siyabonga Genu.

“This project is in Orange Farm, Extension 4, in the Stredford District Node and, once completed, will serve as another example of how the JDA emphasizes the development of resilient, sustainable and liveable urban areas in identified transit nodes and corridors,” Genu added.

Stredford District Node is the most vibrant node in the area and feeds to the anchors such as the Eyethu Mall and Stretford Station. The node was identified in the city’s policy documents, the Nodal Review 2020. 

Issued by the City of Johannesburg