New Free State community safety, roads and transport MEC Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae has promised to address the dire state of roads in the province.
Free State Agriculture commercial manager Jack Armour said at the time there were about 1,034 potholes on a 30km stretch of the road, an average of one pothole every 29m.“The road is an important route between Marquard and Clocolan, where there is a lot of beef production. A lot of trucks go through that road. The other important thing about this road specifically is it is one of the routes that takes people from Ficksburg, from the Lesotho border post, to mines in Welkom,” Armour said.
“I want to emphasise the quality and I indicated no service provider should be paid until the department and [stakeholders] who know the work and are dealing with such projects are satisfied the service being rendered is of quality,” she said.“We have a partnership that needs to be finalised with the Central University of Technology where it will take 600 youths who will be trained and assist in [filling] potholes.
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