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MINISTRY COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION NUMBER 2020/1918 DATE OF PUBLICATION: 21 AUGUST 2020 DUE TO PARLIAMENT: 4 SEPTEMBER 2020 REPLY RECOMMENDED BY MS A WILLIAMSON DIRECTOR-GENERAL: COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE ______________________________________________ THOBANI MATHEZA - PARLIAMENTARY SERVICES DATE: MINISTRY FOR COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION NUMBER: 1918 of 2020 1918.
Mr M Waters (DA) to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs: (1) Whether, with reference to her reply to question 526 on 25 July 2018, (a) the service providers have finalized their assessment; if so, what percentage of roads in the road network in the City of Ekurhuleni have been classified as (i) very poor, (ii) poor and (iii) any other specified classification provided and (b) how many kilometres does this translate into in each of the above cases; (2) what (a) is the (i) Rand value and (ii) distance in kilometres with regard to the (aa) backlog, (bb) resurfacing and (cc) rehabilitation of roads and (b) amount has been set aside for this purpose in the current budget?
NW2433E (3) Reply: The information used to respond to this question was provided by the Gauteng Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.

The response to question 1918 consist of a reply to the following questions, PQ 526, attached for ease of reference.

(1) (a) The road network condition assessment carried out for the city was based on two focal areas, namely: surface condition and structural condition.
The results of the assessment were as follows: Surfacing condition:  Very Good: 30.78%  Good:32.19%  Fair:12.92%  Poor:18.6%  Very Poor:4.6%  Not assessed: 0.18% (roads in cemeteries and parks) Structural condition:  Very Good: 19.54%  Good:12.97%  Fair:37.27%  Poor:9.98%  Very Poor:20.06%  Not assessed: 0.18% (roads in cemeteries and parks) (b) The assessment covered 8 245.53 km of paved roads and 1 658.06 km of unpaved roads within the City of Ekurhuleni.
(2) The current financial budget that has been set aside for rehabilitation of roads within the City of Ekurhuleni is R364 million.

Seventy-one percent (about R261 million) of this budget has been set aside to deal with the rehabilitation of roads.

This amount is aimed at rehabilitating 100 km of roads for the 2020/2021 Financial Year.

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