Work has started on the Msikaba bridge deck, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) reports, noting that it took three trucks to transport the first steel bridge deck segment in three sections from Middelburg, in Mpumalanga, and three to five hours to offload each segment at the construction site, near Lusikisiki, in the Eastern Cape. The 580 m Msikaba bridge will cross the 195 m deep Msikaba river gorge and, once completed, will be the longest span cable-stayed suspension bridge in South Africa and the second longest in Africa after the 680 m Maputo-Catembe bridge, in Mozambique.