Contractors have simply painted over potholes on a 28km stretch of road that cost the North West government R23 million to upgrade.
The Rostrataville Road out of Sannieshof was upgraded and resurfaced with government money, but even as contractors were finishing the job, the new layer of tar was disintegrating.
As City Press watched, local farmer Juan Rousseau tugged at the tar with his bare hands and a chunk of road as large as a hand came away, revealing that the tar layer was only a couple of centimetres thick.
Merely walking on the newly resurfaced road easily dislodged gravel stones. On other stretches, potholes hadn’t even been fixed – dividing lines were merely painted over them…
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