Address SA’s deteriorating road infrastructure before it’s too late

Vusi Shongwe

STEPHAN Flynn, author of The Edge of Disaster, said in the documentary The Crumbling of America: “When we look at Rome as a great civilisation, a big part of what made it so great was the infrastructure. The road systems, the bridges, the aqueducts. As the Romans started to neglect that investment, they crumbled and collapsed, and we ended up with the dark ages.” The same could be said of South Africa. For many years, country’s infrastructure has been impressive. However, in the past few years, South Africa's infrastructure has deteriorated. Almost all of its infrastructure has collapsed or is crumbling. The only remaining infrastructure that has remained unscathed is strongly fragile, as it is by now dated and highly vulnerable. The fragility has manifested itself through potholes and collapses…

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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2025-03-16

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