Rehabilitation of R74 finally starts

After multiple delays, work to rehabilitate and reconstruct the pothole-riddled R74 road between Harrismith and Oliviershoek, the gateway to the Drakensberg, started at the end of January.



The Free State provincial government appointed a contractor, Edwin Construction, on January 9 and awarded a R120m contract to ‘rehabilitate and reconstruct’ the road.



A spokesperson for Edwin Construction said that work on the road had started on January 21 and was expected to be completed by September 21, 2016. 



He said: “We are entirely rebuilding 16km of the road and rehabilitating another 7km.”



The main contractor, Sanyati Civil Engineering and Construction, went under when it was not paid for work worth R40m.



Source: Tourism Update