Question NW1168 to the Minister of Transport
24 April 2023 - NW1168
Ceza, Mr K to ask the Minister of Transport
What time frames has she set to (a) fix potholes and (b) pave (i) municipal and (ii) district roads across the Republic?
Reply:
a) As the Honourable member may be aware, the Cabinet Retreat of 31 May to 1 June 2022, resolved that pothole fixing programme called Vala Zonke be addressed as a National project with South African Road Agency Limited (SANRAL) appointed as the preferred implementing agent.
The Minister of Transport launched the Vala Zonke programme on 08 August 2022 with the plan to rollout the programme (b) on the provincial paved network up to the end of 2022/23 Financial year (c) parallel to the support provinces are receiving from SANRAL.
Provinces are in a process of signing Memoranda of Agreements with both local and district municipalities for cooperation and jointly address potholes on all paved network.
Furthermore, SANRAL entered into MOUs with some Provinces to eradicate potholes. Some provinces are transferring their roads to SANRAL so that they can be better developed and managed.