POLOKWANE – Several business owners in the city’s industrial area say they feel they have yet again been ignored by the municipality when it comes to attending to the potholes in their area.
These business owners, who said they were seriously contemplating legal action against the municipality as the potholes were negatively affecting their businesses, spoke to the media recently as a last resort.
This week the business owners involved said even though municipal workers had started working on the potholes in Chroom Street on Wednesday May 11. “The municipality has been here before. They just dug holes and made the potholes nice and square but that was it. We will not be holding our breath this time,” Johann Goosen, a manager of one of the businesses in the area said.
A business owner who travels to Zimbabwe regularly said the city’s roads were in far worse condition than those in Zimbabwe.
Marlene Bronkhorst, owner of Bronkhorst Crane Hire, said it was unacceptable for the municipality to expect that her customers should travel on roads in such poor condition. “I would like to invite the management of the municipality to drive on these roads on a daily basis and see if they would be satisfied with the statement that the municipality is doing all it can to better the situation,” she said.
Municipal spokesperson Malesela Maubane said the municipality was working on fixing the potholes as they were reported and were currently busy repairing the potholes in the industrial area.
