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R88 million allocated to tackle pothole-ridden Joburg

R88 million has been allocated to tackle potholes in the City of Johannesburg as part of an intervention to address the city’s enormous pothole repair backlog. “We are declaring war on potholes and prioritising the repair of failing road surfaces,”...
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An appropriate app for Johannesburg

The Johannesburg Roads Agency’s innovative Find & Fix mobile app – which enables residents to report potholes, faulty traffic signals, leaking storm water drains, missing manhole covers and other infrastructural defects using their cell phones...
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Badly damaged R36 to be rehabilitated

The Mpumalanga Department of Public Works will rehabilitate the deteriorated R36 between Machadodorp and Mashishing in Mpumalanga in the 2014/15 financial year. According to department spokesman Dumisani Malamule, the road has now deteriorated to...
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What is the price of bad roads?

When your truck is trying to avoid the potholes along the secondary roads that serve the coal belt in Mpumalanga, or bouncing over corrugated dirt roads in the Northern Cape, have you ever wondered how much these roads cost? Not cost as in build....