Despite the pothole sealing work currently done on First Street in the Industrial Site in Mahikeng, businesses along the street have blamed the local municipality for profit loss due to the road nightmare.

The road on the street has become a disaster with ever increasing deep potholes and motorists experience havoc with large traffic volumes getting stuck during rainy weather.

“I’ve given up hope. In my entire life for 44 years this road has been a crisis and has been reconstructed three times in 1986, 1992 and last year but it remains a ghost. I’ve lost a business and my clients have turned against me because of potholes and mini lakes that occur when it rains and again there is no drainage system,” said Car Care business owner, Andre Davids.

Sharpline Signs company co-owner, Mike Frits said: “Companies doing business with us have disappeared. I’ve lost my vehicle engine since I got stuck when I drove my car through stationary water on this road.

“Our company has been here since 1986 and it does not help patching up the road with soil which is washed away by the rain water.

The municipality has spent tax payers’ money and should now take responsibility for loss of our business profit”.

Nkosinathi Masombuka, a motorist complained about his vehicle wheel alignment. “I use this road going to work everyday. I keep paying for my wheel alignment because the potholes keep damaging my vehicle,” he said.

The road is one of the four projects under investigation by the SIU following unjustifiable expenditure.

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