There is not enough money available to fix roads, so more toll gates will probably have to be built on national roads, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said in a report on Thursday.
More than 4 100km of roads — or 32% of the national road network — are in such a bad state that they only have a ”structural life span” of five years.
It would cost more than R35-billion to fix these roads before 2014, Ndebele said in Parliament, according to Beeld.
But his department has only R16,8-billion available to do this.
”The shortfall could be made up by building toll gates on the national road network,” said Ndebele. — Sapa