Midvaal Local Municipality continues to make significant progress through its ongoing War on Potholes campaign, actively working to build safer and more reliable roads for residents across the municipality.

During July, municipal road maintenance teams repaired 2 597 potholes, maintaining an impressive weekly pothole closure rate of between 89% and 93% of all identified potholes. The municipality’s water section repaired 430 water-related potholes.

Senior Media Officer Idah Satikhe says, “Our grading teams continued to improve the municipality’s gravel road network by regravelling more than 19 kilometres of roads. In addition, road marking teams continued enhancing road safety and the overall appearance of Midvaal’s streets through the repainting of stop signs, pedestrian crossings and speed humps.”

Following extensive road failures that compromised sections of Boundary Road, rehabilitation works were undertaken to restore the structural integrity of the affected area. The project is now substantially complete, with only the painting of the centre line remaining.

“Another major infrastructure project was the successful completion of rehabilitation works on Corrie Pypers Road in Golf Park. During assessments, the team found the road to be highly saturated, requiring remedial work. The rehabilitation has now been completed, and the road has been reopened to traffic,” Satikhe concludes.