Author: Kevin sibindi

Local Government

Daily vehicle damage caused by poor roads in Bushbuckridge

These days our roads are full of potholes, a pothole is a structural failure in an asphalt pavement caused by the presence of water in the underlying soil structure and the presence of traffic passing over the affected area. Introduction of water to the underlying soil structure first weakens the supporting soil. Traffic then fatigues and breaks the poorly supported asphalt surface in the affected area. Continued traffic action ejects both asphalt and the underlying...

Local Government

Residents plead for government to address pit toilets

Bushbuckridge is a sanitation timebomb. Just 8.2% of its 500,000 residents have access to proper toilets. The rest are forced to use pit toilets, which contaminate the region’s water, and raise the risk of cholera outbreaks. Residents in the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality in Mpumalanga have pleaded with government to address the high number of unhealthy pit toilets in the area, and instances of numerous households having to share one long-drop with each other. Bushbuckridge has...

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