User:LYSIAS LMP

A dark cloud of dust that usually hangs over the town of Rehoboth during the mornings and afternoons will persist into the future due to lack of funds to tare the roads. This was confirmed by the Rehoboth Municipality’s head of technical division, Ernst De Waal. The dust, which is normally caused by a high volume of cars at the town, is now being blamed for the increase in dust-related medical conditions, Tuberculosis and Asthma. De Waal said the town council has an infrastructure development plan in place, but cannot be rolled out due to multiple challenges. “We managed to tar 1.2km of roads in the last financial year, but due to the heavy rain we had last season, we diverted funds to rehabilitate the damaged roads.” “Our strategic plan was to at least tar 2.5km of roads per financial year, but due to limited funds, we are unable to do so,” he told the community reporter. “We don’t receive funding for infrastructure development, more especially the roads, from the central government, thus we have to rely on the money from the rate payers, which sometimes does not meet our expectations,” De Waal said. He explained that the Town Council is indeed receiving funding from the Road Fund Administration but that the money is not enough; “just imagine to tar 1.2km will cost around 1.6 millions.”