Drive to repair city's potholes

TSHWANE: COMMUNITY, CIVIL SOCIETY JOIN FORCES

- Marizka Coetzer

Civil society organisations and community members continue to carry the responsibility of repairing potholes around Pretoria, while the municipality stays mum.

Betereinders cofounder pastor Johan Erasmus and his team took to the streets with the NG Oosterlig en Dialogue community last Wednesday, as part of their Gatvol pothole project to fix over 100 potholes in the east of Pretoria.

"We used over 100 of 35kg buckets of pothole mix with over 100 people helping," he said.

"People see the government and municipalities are neglecting their responsibility. We need to do it ourselves."

Erasmus said there was no better feeling than seeing black and white people working together.