Roads in and around Nelson Mandela Bay and in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality will be getting a multi-billion rand face-lift.
The South African National Roads Agency announced Wednesday road infrastructure development programmes with a total investment value of R1,6 billion for the national road network in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and the Sarah Baartman District Municipality.
In a statement, SANRAL Southern Region Manager, Mbulelo Peterson, said they will “break ground for six new construction, maintenance and upgrading projects in its new 2017/18 financial book year.”
The announcement was made at one of SANRAL’s several annual consultation and engagement briefings with municipalities in the Eastern Cape.
Peterson said three of the projects along the R334, R342 and R336 will improve the quality of the national road network from Somerset East, Kirkwood and Patterson to Addo, and from Addo to Motherwell / Nelson Mandela Bay, while the remaining projects are focused on the R75 and N2 for Uitenhage, Joe Slovo and Colchester.
“The forthcoming projects will not only advance road safety but also deliver a world-class national road network to the province Peterson said.
“Along with the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission’s strategic integrated N2 Wild Coast Toll Road project, investment in the national road network in the Eastern Cape is poised to steer the region into a golden era of prosperity through mobility,” he said.
Peterson indicated that SANRAL will set SMME contract participation goals and community training programmes in forthcoming tender calls to ensure utilization, maximization and development of SMME’s.
