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The makeover includes the extension of the runway to accommodate their planes, as well as\u00a0 additional renovations to the airport building, including the installation of a generator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upgrades enabled the UAE leader and 500 of his royal entourage, staff and artists to have easy access to a lodge he owns, where they will celebrate the end of Ramadaan, the month-long Muslim fast, on Saturday, April 22, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulembu Airport is a former military base that is occupied by the SA military&#8217;s airborne infantry unit and the SAPS Airwing,&nbsp;<em>News24<\/em>&nbsp;writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane applied to the Department of Home Affairs to declare Bulembu Airport a port of entry for the UAE visitors to land directly from their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit follows on from Mabuyane&#8217;s March 2023 visit to the UAE, to look into trade and investment opportunities, as well as potential cooperation in renewable and green energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, agro-processing, and industrialisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 The Bulembu Airport near Bisho in the Eastern Cape, which was decomissioned in the 1990s, has had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-continental-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/00311616_d3b45bac5bb2598e46dab71fbb7a039d_arc614x376_w1248_us1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4205,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/uganda-airlines-makes-maiden-flight-out-of-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":8879,"position":0},"title":"UGANDA AIRLINES MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT OUT OF AFRICA","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Uganda Airlines set out to conquer the world when it made its maiden trip to Dubai with at least 81 passengers on board .The 259-capacity Airbus A330-800 Neo aircraft left Entebbe international airport with 76 passengers in economy and five others flying business class. 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