Crater city: Inside Gauteng’s growing pothole crisis
The roads beneath us are cracking—literally. Across Johannesburg and beyond, potholes are turning daily commutes into obstacle courses, damaging cars, risking lives, and revealing just how neglected our infrastructure has become. From overwhelmed road agencies to a lack of funds and mounting public frustration, the problem runs deeper than it seems.
In this HOT 1027 News exclusive, Natasha Thorp investigates the causes, consequences, and cracks in the system that brought us here. This is Crater City—a journey into the heart of Gauteng’s road crisis, and the fight to fix what’s broken beneath our wheels.
With the G20 approaching, Gauteng’s crumbling roads and infrastructure have suddenly shot to the top of the political agenda, even though, we’ve been living like this for more than a decade. HOT 1027’s Natasha Thorp has more…
Gauteng’s roads have been disintegrating for years, but officials say they’re hard at work “proactively” managing repairs across the province’s vast network of roads.
With massive backlogs, limited resources, and roads deteriorating by the day, is there any real plan to fix the problem?
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