Ermelo residents roll up sleeves and fix potholes near Pick n Pay
Residents from George Botha Park and surrounding areas pooled resources, buying cement and gathering sand, gravel, and tools from their homes to start filling potholes.
ERMELO – Sbusiso Mashego of George Botha Park, along with other residents, rolled up their sleeves on April 17 and began repairing potholes at the T-junction of Hennie Marais Street and Camden Avenue.
This comes after, according to Mashego, he suffered a costly setback a week ago, when he drove through a deep pothole and sustained R7 500 in damage to his tyre and rim.
The incident was the final straw, prompting him and several others to take matters into their own hands.
“We decided if no one’s going to fix it, we will.”
The group, made up of residents from George Botha Park and other areas, purchased a few bags of cement and gathered sand, gravel, and tools from their own homes and the surrounding area and started filling potholes in some of the most damaged sections of road.
According to Mashego, the potholes are not just an inconvenience — they are downright dangerous.
“Many of them are deep, and when it rains, they fill with water. Drivers can’t see how bad they are until it’s too late,” he said.
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