Only a few weeks after the residents of Waterval had staged a service delivery march, protesting against the Makhado Municipality, the municipality has now decided to start fixing the potholes in the township.

The technical services workers surprised the residents last Friday, when they arrived in the township to fix the potholes. This came only three weeks after the residents had complained about the bad condition of the streets in the township. The residents also complained about the lack of water supply in the area and that they want to be consulted during the selling of stands.

Makhado Municipality Mayor Cllr Mavhungu Luruli, who had joined the workers to fix the potholes, said that the municipal team that was working on those particular streets "was a bit slow. We decided that, as councillors and part of the management team, we must join the workers and assist them," she added.

Luruli said that she had decided to join the workers every Friday at their working sites. "We have a programme to check what our workers are doing at various projects and, at the same time, take part ourselves," she said.

She also mentioned that taking part in the programme also helped her understand the challenges that workers were faced with when performing their daily tasks. The move was also, according to her, to show the community that the municipality was committed to giving them sustainable service delivery. She appealed to motorists to be cooperative during the process.

Several members of the Waterval community who spoke to our reporter said that they were happy about the municipality's move to fix the potholes. "Our streets are in a very bad condition. Even though it took the municipality some time to attend to our problem, we are happy that, eventually, the pothole problem is being attended to."