Twenty-five million potholes – that’s the estimate for South Africa. Five years ago it was 15 million. The main reason is inadequate maintenance, which results in a vicious cycle that creates even deeper holes in the pockets of the administering ...
Former SARF president Mutshutshu Nxumalo said that while South Africa’s road network was one of its greatest assets, a mere 5% was allocated to it from the national fiscus.
“Sanral is doing good work, but they can’t do it on their own. There is an imbalance between the understanding of what needs to be achieved and the political will. We have legislation but the wrong leadership.” Nxumalo said inadequate road maintenance was “far-reaching and disastrous”, putting public safety at risk, causing the destruction of transport routes, disrupting the movement of goods, negatively affecting tourism and resulting in major claims from the Road Accident Fund.
“Our roads go through their lifespan without maintenance, which eventually leads to bigger problems. Our potholes specifically are caused by a delay in the response to fixing them timeously,” Nxumalo said.The Western Cape department of transport and public works does not have a figure for how many of the 25 million potholes in South Africa are in the province.
“We attribute this to our proactive maintenance regime. This regime has various types of work that are actioned, which ranges from rehabilitation, resurfacing to periodic maintenance, and to replacement of infrastructure in totality. Emergency repairs are also actioned.”
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