Electricity, once a basic service, has become a luxury. Power outages are frequent, prolonged, and unpredictable, crippling households, businesses, and essential services. Basic service delivery has all but collapsed.
What residents receive today barely resembles what a functioning municipality should provide. Gravel roads are in a shocking state, neglected for years
with no meaningful maintenance or resurfacing.
Roads have deteriorated to such an extent that traveling just 32 kilometers can take over an hour and a half. In emergencies, the chances of getting a critically ill patient to hospital on time depend more on luck than on an effective road network.
Traffic lights across Polokwane are largely non-functional, creating daily chaos, increasing accidents, and further slowing an already strained transport system.
Even the town centre is no longer spared potholes,…