OUDTSHOORN NEWS - The Oudtshoorn Municipality is in the process of doing repair work on the town's roads.
"Oudtshoorn's executive mayors 100 days service delivery plan gains momentum as more than 30 streets damages are set to benefit from a R2 million road-repair programme within the next month," said Ntobeko Mangqwengqwe, spokesperson for the municipality.
He said the programme will focus on municipal wards 1, 2, 3 and 7 consisting of four parts, namely repairing surfacing of roads damaged by burst water mains, done by a private contractor, repairing of potholes by the municipal technical team, painting of street marks and repairing / replacing of road signs.
Mayor Colan Sylvester has about three months ago announced a 100-day plan aimed at improving service delivery in the greater Oudtshoorn.
Mangqwengqwe explains: "The first street to be repaired was Oostlikeweg in the South of Oudtshoorn. Henra, a private contractor started with road surfacing specifically to areas where pipe bursts have occurred. This company brought along a team of experts and skilled personnel in road sealing, therefore job creation is limited to six job opportunities for this specific programme.
"The senior manager for streets and storm-water, Paul Muller has assured that projects with a larger job creation component would commence early next year when streets in the poor areas will be repaired.
"Another element of the street repair work which runs simultaneously with the road surface repair due to pipe bursts is the fixing of potholes which is conducted by the Municipal technical team. This will be followed by streets marking and repairing / replacing of street signs."
- Oostelike Weg
- Rademeyer and Jan van Riebeeck Streets
- Rossouw Street
- Park Road and Luscombe Street
- Melville and Hof Streets
- Hof and Buitekant Streets
- Hof and Jan van Riebeeck Streets
- Jan van Riebeeck Street - number 102
- Buitekant and Bloem Streets
- Melville and Alberts Streets
- Melville and Bloem Streets
- Melville Street - number 54
- Smith and Tuin Streets
- Sunset Avenue - number 4
- Jacaranda Street
- Jacaranda and Voortrekker Streets
- Middel Road
- Hospital Road and Buitekant Street
- Jan van Riebeeck Street - number 201
- Jan van Riebeeck & Church Streets
- Buitekant and St. Saviour Streets
- High and Noord Streets
- Victoria and Adderley Streets
- Eerste Laan
- Jonker Street
- Jubilee Street
- Church and Jubilee Streets
- Church Street (near fire station)
"Should the repairs proceed according to plant, the contractor, Henra, will complete the maintenance by the 30 November."
The technical services directorate chairperson, councillor Johan Fourie has guaranteed the public that his department is trying its best to improve the general condition of streets in the Greater Oudtshoorn.
Potholes like this one will now be repaired. Photo: Supplied.
'We bring you the latest Oudtshoorn, Klein Karoo news'
