King Shaka International Airport is named after the founder of the Zulu Kingdom, King Shaka. King Shaka Airport stands on- iLembe District land, which is Culturally significant to the Zulu people. In 2011 the present-day Zulu king, King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, chose King Shaka International Airport to be part of the Bicentenary Celebrations .This was to honour 200 Years of the World-famous Zulu Nation. As such King Shaka International Airport you will enter into Zulu Heritage and Legacy. In 2012 King Shaka International Airport was named Africa's second best Airport, while Cape Town International was named the first. (This took R 6.8 Billion in total. This figure that makes it South Africa’s second most expensive Transport infrastructure project after the Gautrain.)

King Shaka International, has a bird radar system which is the first of its kind for a Commercial Airport anywhere in the World! The system is linked directly to the control tower so that the guys and girls up there will know straight away if any potentially hazardous bird movement is occurring, with the Mount Moreland Reed Bed just a couple of kilometres away, this was felt a necessary precaution. About 3 Million European Barn Swallows – that’s roughly 8 percent of the total Population – migrate to the Reed Bed every Year to roost. It’s in order to protect them and the Airport’s passengers that the radar system was installed.

Apart from ensuring that the local birds are looked after, King Shaka Airport is part of an initiative which hosted a Rhino Parade on its premises in conjunction with the Wildlands Conservation Trust and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. With support from Local celebrities such as Chad le Clos, Shaun Pollock and Ray Phiri. The Airport invited students from Durban University of Technology, to create life-size Rhino Statues which they would then paint, each one according to the particular star’s, colour choices. The event was held in a bid to raise awareness for the Save the Rhino Campaign.

"The freedom that comes from having no constraints in the planning phase, meant the landscapers could develop magnificent Gardens, and the Airports Flowerbeds, are some of the most wonderful you will see anywhere in the World. When the Aloes, Strelitzias and African Irises and others; are in full bloom, they blanket the Area in beautiful African colour."

With over 17 years of service excellence and crafting extraordinary experiences, the CTICC has built an enviable reputation as a premier Business Tourism venue in South Africa and the World. The Cape Town International Convention Centre Company (Convenco), the holding company of the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) was formed in 1999 through collaboration between the City of Cape Town, the Provincial Government of the Western Cape and the Business sector.

The primary objective behind the formation of the holding company was to deliver a World-class International Convention Centre in Cape Town that would provide meeting, convention and exhibition services and facilities for Local and International Organisations and their guests.

The project is substantial in its design. It required, amongst other skills, an artful bridging, in a figurative sense, between the spatial requirements of functions attended by thousands, and those of smaller events attended by only a few. It is thus a matter of size and human scale: the need for large functional spaces, yet also for warmth and intimacy; for a cohesive, overall image yet for variety and legibility. From the users’ point of view, the complex meets these demands remarkably well. The quality of design of a Building complex which presented numerous challenges from overall concept through to detail, is well considered, cohesive and logical.

The stone-faced surfaces, wood paneling and glass, offset by exposed structural steel elements, all strike a good balance. The building is flexible and modular, yet it does not give the impression of being repetitive. The scale of the indoor spaces is comfortable, even when empty. This is especially true of the triple level spine which forms a backbone, and the large indoor plant courts which assist with orientation. Modern, international and cool, it makes for its varied purposes. The complex is right alongside the City Centre, appointing the rather dull Foreshore precinct with new purpose and in scale lending a sense of urbanity, using protected internal courtyards as extensions to the City Landscape and thereby creating protected City Squares. This is a first class 'new boy on the block'.

The Proteas played out to an exhilarating Netball World Cup draw against the defending champions New Zealand at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Wednesday, the 9th 2023. At a full CTICC, South Africans cheered on loudly as they witnessed a mighty fightback from the Proteas who drew 48-48 with the Silver Ferns.