Welverdiend main road repairs finally begin after years of pothole complaints

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19-03-2026
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The Citizen Online
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After more than a decade of complaints, authorities have begun repairing the main road through Welverdiend, with phased upgrades and local workers employed to restore the heavily damaged route.

After many years of complaints, authorities have finally started to fix the main road through Welverdiend this week.

Residents have been complaining about the terrible state of this road for more than a decade. The problem was created and made worse by the fact that many truck drivers drive through Welverdiend on their way from the N14 to the N12 to avoid the weigh bridge outside Potchefstroom.

The problem became so bad that residents even fixed some of the worst potholes themselves last year.

Due to the heavy load on the road, it was, however, back in the same condition soon afterwards.

“I was overjoyed when I saw the workers of the Gauteng Road Department arriving here on Friday,” says an opposition party councillor, Tollie Lubbe.

He asked that residents leave the workers alone so that they can do their work as fast and efficiently as possible.

According to a health and safety representative at the project, the work at the section of the road between the main road to Potchefstroom and 10th Avenue will be phase 1 of the project and is expected to be completed by the end of the month, after which phase 2 (the section of the damaged road past the shops) will be tackled.

A total of 18 general workers from Ward 12 and Ward 3 were appointed to work on the project. The work to repair the road was expected to start in full gear on March 17, and the section of the road being repaired will be kept closed to vehicles, which will be rerouted for the time being.