Pan Africa Mall ‘resurrection’ still under negotiation
ALEXANDRA – Werrett commends ‘uninvited’ community members who took up the initiative and came to the party to do the amazing clean-up work.
Tenants of the Pan Africa Shopping Centre in Alexandra have expressed their eagerness to once again return to trading at the mall.
This is according to the centre’s operations manager Alton Werrett who was speaking in an interview with Alex News.
He said the mall was ‘slowly but surely on a trajectory of rising up from the ashes of the looting mayhem that engulfed the township in mid-July’.
“We are slowly but surely getting there. I cannot give a timetable for the resurrection of the mall nor the cost of the damage caused by the looting but all I can say for now is that we are in negotiations with our insurers on the matter of the reconstruction programme,” he added.
Werrett assured Alex News that the shell of what used to be one of the most thriving malls in Johannesburg had finally been secured from metal scavengers seeking to help themselves to scraps of metal, copper wire and other items they hope to sell to scrap metal dealers.
Werrett confirmed the entire centre had been ‘cleaned up skoon’ and expressed his gratitude to the people of the township who came out in their numbers to clean up ‘uninvited and did this amazing community work’.
