King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality (KSDM) has secured a scrapper and paver machines with an amount of R18million. These technologies come as a game changer towards construction and maintenance of KSD urban roads.
KSD Executive Mayor, Cllr Nyaniso Nelani said that Mthatha has been known as the city of potholes and acquiring these machines, the municipality is trying to address that issue.
A paver is a piece of construction equipment used to lay asphalt on roads. It lays the asphalt flat and provides minor compaction before it is compacted by a roller.
The machines will also improve the procedure for pothole patching and road rehabilitation which in turn increase the life span of the roads.
Road scrapper machine will assist to scrape potholes and reuse the same material to produce asphalt that can be utilised during road construction. The initiative will curb cost and generate revenue since the municipality will be able to produce its own asphalt.
Furthermore, the Municipality has launched the construction of 1.3km sidewalk from Mthatha York Road down to Bridge Street.
According to the Executive Mayor Cllr Nyaniso Nelani the sidewalks construction is in line with implementation of Kigali Model in terms of cleaning and beautification of our towns.
These are all KSD strides towards being a smart city and a metropolitan municipality in 2026.
