Giving his State of the Nation Address (Sona) at the Cape Town Hall City on Thursday evening, Ramaphosa says the rural roads programme will use labour-intensive methods to construct or upgrade nearly 700 kilometres of rural road over the next few years. 

These provinces are largely rural with high traffic volumes because of agriculture. Their economy is mostly driven by these agricultural activities. Using block-paving is a new method to construct durable roads faster and more cost-effectively

Residents in these two provinces have, from time to time, expressed their anger and frustration with the state of roads towards municipalities, which are struggling to fix their roads.

Ramaphosa further announced that this social enterprise programme includes access roads in Limpopo and Eastern Cape, gravel to surface upgrades in the Free State and North West, and capacity and connectivity improvements in the Western Cape.

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