Mpumalanga’s Roads: a Consulting Engineer’s Perspective
Recent floods in Mpumalanga have not created a crisis in the province’s road network, they have exposed systemic weaknesses that have developed over many years. Across the province’s secondary road network, the combined effects of ageing infrastructure, changing freight demands and increasingly intense rainfall are now visible as widespread failures. As consulting engineers who design and maintain both water and road assets across the province, we are seeing clear evidence that this network is no longer aligned with the realities it is expected to serve....
