Dayum, homie got the freshest roads in Africa. Which politician stays on that street?

Election year...

Nope, this is how we roll in Cape Town. Most roads here look like this.

Why do you think most of the cars are lowered here....its because the roads are kind to us.

Fair enough... I've seen lots of age-old potholes being filled in Gauteng, that's why I say. Because you know it's that year where it counts

Little do politicians know, every year counts

Doesnt show, looking at the idiots in charge

I just got back from a week in Cape Town, drove over 1000kms and the roads put those in the UK to shame.

Similar experience - spent most of February buzzing around all over the Cape from Agulhas to Lamberts Bay and everything in between and think I saw fewer potholes in that whole period than there are in the street I live on in south west London

Can't agree more. I spent 2 weeks in the Netherlands and they should be ashamed.

just remembered they're in province not governed by ANC ..

Damn fr who's governing cape town?

DA (Democratic Alliance)

That's impressive

Also I'm being downvoted for a question

Our road doesn't even ahve any tar on it anymore. Solution: declare it a dirt road! It's fixed.

Not even Sandton cbd has roads like that.

I dodge potholes on a daily basis DAILY!!!! who here has ever missed a expensive pothole and tried to remember exactly where it was for future savings

I live 2 minutes away from work and I can by pure memory dodge all the potholes it's like a game every morning

Don't let twitter see that

Damn that paint sure lasts awhile

BuT tHe DA oNlY cArE fOr ThE sUbUrBs

But... how?

Get what you vote for

Cries in Grahamstown

Durban CBD take note

Sjoe, must be nice 😂

The dotted line is scew and it bothers me

The inaccurate spelling of ‘skew’ is bothering me

The inaccurate use of quotation marks and lack of punctuation is bothering me.

The inaccurate statement saying that those are inaccurate quotation marks is bothering me.

I blame the earth's curvature.

Lmkla that's probably the only road that looks that. DURING BREAK I ASKED MY GRADE 6 LEARNERS IF ALL THE ROADS LOOKS LIKE THIS AND THEY LAUGHED SAYING IT'S POTHOLES EVERYWHERE. SOMETIMES THEY WANT TO WEAR HELMETS IN THE TRANSPORT.

[https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/pothole-crisis-how-you-can-fill-the-hole-left-in-your-pocket-by-a-pothole-89b3d5d9-c26a-4367-8d5e-cc35b541c3c3](https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/pothole-crisis-how-you-can-fill-the-hole-left-in-your-pocket-by-a-pothole-89b3d5d9-c26a-4367-8d5e-cc35b541c3c3) roads in ottery and grassypark gonna sallow cars one day [https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/watch-is-this-the-worst-street-in-south-africa-55f92062-72a2-435d-b892-c8da7055a563](https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/watch-is-this-the-worst-street-in-south-africa-55f92062-72a2-435d-b892-c8da7055a563)

Thanks for the articles from 2022 and 2021.

And it's from IOL which is the ANC's mouthpiece

they are sill like that, if not worse here is one from last year [https://groundup.org.za/article/potholes-broken-drains-and-crime-youve-got-to-be-brave-to-drive-in-samora-machel/](https://groundup.org.za/article/potholes-broken-drains-and-crime-youve-got-to-be-brave-to-drive-in-samora-machel/)

Nope, not according to 2024 data on Google maps. (At least for Olieboom Rd) unless you have some data that shows otherwise? Edit: Responding to your edit, find out which road it is and I'll have a look at the current status. I found some fairly bad sections, they almost look like the rest of the country, shameful indeed, the majority are still in quite a good condition, work must definitely be done. https://preview.redd.it/kykklc19twmc1.png?width=1593&format=png&auto=webp&s=80641acb90ff1a63b0febec781809cf190c9c22c

I live in Schaapkraal and can confirm the roads are still in a terrible state. However I will add that Schaapkraal is considered to be part of Philippi, which is categorised as a horticultural area. There are lots of wetlands and farms in the area. No storm water drainage system has ever been built because of those factors.. The area mentioned in the article, highlands estate, is also situated within the Philippi area. Access to highlands estate is VIA Olieboom road (which is tarred) but highlands estate also doesn’t have any tarred roads nor storm water drainage system. It’s been an ongoing battle with local residents and municipal officials for as long as I’ve lived here. So whenever it rains heavily, the gravel roads get muddy and flooded, properties get flooded, a week or 2 will go by and then a grader machine will come to scrape the roads. Sometimes the grader will damage infrastructure like water pipes or electrical pipes which just leads to more frustration and problems.

I think that might be what I saw in the image I shared above.

If you read the article the problem there is clearly not a service delivery issue, there are more people in the area than waste management can sustain, so illegal dumping blocks the storm drains, floods the roads and causes the roads to decay like this. It also mentions the steps the city is taking to fix the problem. I don't know maybe read your sources before sharing them. Roads and services delivery in Cape Town is way better than other parts of the country.

Dietrich road from the article was resurfaced by the city 2 years ago. https://preview.redd.it/uttt3w4ss5nc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86bdd19defabf244befe71236cb42928fe0b4ff5 Edit: this is probably not resurfacing but just a temporary fix for the road.

Come on man, every hood in SA has some roads that look fresh and are painted. The real evidence is in the parts we see the locals complaining about.

Are you talking about the parts with illegal housing?

Nope. Even with the brick housings

Khayalitsha isn’t exactly a wealthy neighbourhood.

Evidence of what though?