Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Kedibone Diale-Tlabela has on Monday launched a large-scale road maintenance activation in Mogale City as part of the province’s intensified campaign to rehabilitate key mobility corridors and improve road safety.
The initiative forms part of a wider rollout across all municipalities, aimed at strengthening service-delivery capacity and addressing critical infrastructure needs. The route undergoing upgrades carries high traffic volumes and is considered essential for connecting communities, supporting local businesses, enabling tourism and facilitating freight movement across the West Rand. Diale-Tlabela said the province has significantly boosted its maintenance capability, allowing teams to respond more effectively to road-surface failures, storm damage, electrical faults and other infrastructure challenges.
“We are on a campaign to fix Gauteng’s roads and restore service delivery at the pace and scale our communities expect,” she said.
“Magalies Road is one of the priority corridors in Mogale City, and the work we are doing here is part of a broader commitment to improving mobility and road safety across the province.”
The planned works in Mogale City include resurfacing and patching, sinkhole rehabilitation, the restoration of streetlights and traffic signals, and the stabilisation of slope failures caused by heavy rains.
“Our increased maintenance capacity means we can now meet our road-repair targets not only in Mogale City, but in every municipality across Gauteng,” the MEC added.
“We are bringing roads to an improved level of service so that motorists, public transport operators and businesses can travel safely.”
She emphasised that road maintenance is central to Gauteng’s road-safety strategy.
“Well-maintained roads save lives. By repairing potholes, fixing signals and restoring lighting, we are reducing crashes and creating safer conditions for all road users.”
The Department said similar maintenance activations will continue across the province in the coming weeks as part of its ongoing infrastructure improvement programme.
