Completion of the Ha-Belo industrial estate project in Butha-Buthe, Lesotho, has been moved to August 2021.
The project worth USD 55.5 million was supposed to have been delivered in January 2021, but it is 81 percent complete. The delays were caused by resurveys and digital terrain modelling of the project site.
The project is being executed by the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) which is in charge of the project.
Phase-I of the project is scheduled to deliver 16 factory shells which are expected to employ over 14,500 people upon completion of construction. Subsequent phases of the project will create an additional 41,000 jobs from 51 shells.
The government-owned project is being developed by LNDC, with Unik Construction Engineering as main contractor.