Category: 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...

Townships face a looming water disaster

By Pamela Mashego Thaba Chweu townships, Leroro, Matibidi, Lydenburg and others face a number of challenges with multiple challenges adversely affecting schools, small business owners and households. Water has by far been the biggest challenge of them all, and therefore townships have been urged to use water sparingly. Water has always been a major problem in these communities but the past year has been the worst. And this is what residents have described as a...

Residents angry at ongoing brown water crisis

By Beatrice Shongwe With claims from the municipality that plans are well under way to alleviate Emalahleni’s ongoing water problems, residents nonetheless this week took to the streets to protest the dirty brown water still flowing from taps. “For the past month, we have been without water. This problem is not new; eMalahleni residents are still getting dirty water on a daily basis. Most people are unemployed and have to surrender and consume the dirty...

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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