Francistown Stadium handover date moved to July :: Mmegi Online

FRANCISTOWN: The long awaited 27,000-seater Francistown Stadium will miss the June 8 handover deadline, but the contractor China Jiangsu International is confident the facility would be handed over to the government before the end of July. The project manager, James Tasethabi said the contractor had requested a 35-day extension.

“The main contractor (Jiangsu) is doing remedial works and has asked for an extension from the June 8 deadline by 35 days, meaning that the stadium will be ready by the end of July. “So far the stadium and overall renovations are almost 90 percent complete. The pitch and works within the ground area is 98 percent ready,” Tasethabi said.

“As for the remedial works, what is remaining is intense finishing of specialisation areas such as electronics and other mechanical fittings. For now, until the handover in July, we will also be carrying out tests on some electronic and mechanical systems we have installed around the stadium.” Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science Infrastructure and Technology (MIST), Dikagiso Mokotedi said the contractor requested an extension because of delays caused by the Christmas break and other minor remedial works that kept on cropping up during renovations.

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