Airports Company of South Africa Limited (ACSA) is a partially

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South African

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company. Founded in 1993, ACSA operates nine of South Africa's airports. The company is headquartered at Aviation Park, Western Precinct Building situated at O.R. Tambo International Airport in

Kempton Park, Gauteng Kempton Park is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng province, South Africa. It is part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It is situated south of Tembisa, one of the largest townships in South Africa, which is also part o ...

, South Africa.

History

All of South Africa's airports used to be owned and operated by the state until 23 July 1993 when nine airports were reassigned to ACSA. ACSA was then owned by the South African Government through the Department of Transport. In 1998,

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bought 20% of ACSA's shares for R819 million. In 2005, the Public Investment Corporation, bought the 20% shares back from the Italian group. In 2006, ACSA was part of a consortium that won the bid to manage the

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. In 2012, ACSA signed a 20-year concession agreement to manage the

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, a strategic alliance between two countries that organized the soccer world cup in recent years. The deal was signed through a consortium including Brazil's

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for 51% of the concession and at a cost of $9.2 billion. In May 2016, ACSA finished installing a solar power plant near the Kimberley Airport as part of a broader plan to install solar farms in all of its regional airports.

Airports

The following international airports are operated by ACSA: *

O.R. Tambo International Airport O. R. Tambo International Airport is an international airport situated in Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa. It serves as the primary airport for domestic and international travel to/from South Africa and since 2020, it is Africa's second ...

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Bram Fischer International Airport Bram Fischer International Airport ( af, Bram Fischer Internasionale Lughawe) is a primary airport located in Bloemfontein, the capital city of the Free State province of South Africa. The runways are shared with AFB Bloemspruit. In November ...

* Upington International Airport *

Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport is an airport serving Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), a city in the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. It was formerly known as H. F. Verwoerd Airport and Port Elizabeth International Airport. The air ...

* São Paulo Guarulhos International Airport,

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(consortium with

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and

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) The following local airports are operated by ACSA: *

King Phalo Airport King Phalo Airport ( af, Koning Phalo Internasionale Lughawe; formerly East London Airport ( af, Oos-Londen Lughawe) until 23 February 2021) is an airport serving East London, a city in the Eastern Cape province on the southeast coast of Sout ...

George Airport George Airport ( af, George Lughawe) is an airport located in George, Western Cape, South Africa. It was formerly known as P.W. Botha Airport, named after the state president who lived in this part of the country. This airport was originally ...

Kimberley Airport Kimberley Airport is an airport serving Kimberley, the capital city of the province of Northern Cape in South Africa. The airport is approximately 10 km away from the centre of Kimberley.url=https://kimberleyairport.co.za, date= 24 Octob ...

Mthatha Airport Mthatha Airport is an airport serving Mthatha ( formerly Umtata), a city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The airport was previously named K. D. Matanzima Airport after Kaiser Matanzima, a president of the former Transkei. Facili ...

Armed cash heist at OR Tambo

On 25 March 2006 gunmen armed with

AK-47 The AK-47, officially known as the ''Avtomat Kalashnikova'' (; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas operated, gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian s ...

s stole bags containing several million

US dollars The United States dollar (Currency symbol, symbol: Dollar sign, $; ISO 4217, code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from Dollar, other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American ...

. Three ACSA employees and six other individuals were arrested and appeared in court in connection with the heist.

References

External links

ACSA home page
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