Mega City opens with larger queues

Sibusiso Ndlovu Acornhoek Mega City- Residents of Acornhoek went in larger numbers to celebrity and witness the opening of Mega City shopping center, previously known as Acornhoek Plaza. The opening of the center opens a new chapter of the town, with new name and old shops been renovated. The shopping center opened on Thursday, October 31, it has about 18 biggest shops. While opening was a topic of the day, people started to form larger queues to purchase clothes, food and other valuable products, the queues started early in the morning lasted until mid afternoon. The “extravagance” shopping was as results of sale from all 18 shops. Historical people of Acornhoek used to travel distance to buy products. Madala Ngobeni, one of the residents says indeed this is a new chapter to open, “I wish our forefather can come back to see what we are seeing here, It seems like I’m dreaming. We will now spend our money here at home, it won’t take me even an hour to reach the shopping center, it’s a nice move indeed, we thank the owners of this shops for seeing the need to invest in us”, said Ngobeni. While on the shopping center Xap Xap news interviewed an 89-year-old “magogo” from Thulamahashi, who refused to be named, Magogo says that she used to stay in Acornhoek area and it was imported for her to come and witness the opening. “Acornhoek has changed about 40 years back this place used to be a bush and we use to plough our indigenous food and grassing our cows here, now the place has change you won’t even notice that is the same place that I am talking about here”, she explain.