Roads top agenda of Mochudi East MP

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As the MP for Mochudi East, Isaac Davids starts his first Kgotla meetings since elections in October, the Modipane-Sikwane and Olifants Drift - Ramotlabaki roads will be top of the agenda. The MP who will be starting his Kgotla meetings next week, says that the two gravel roads that link the villages are a priority.

The poor state of the roads has been giving the residents of the river villages - Sikwane, Mabalane, Ramonaka and Mathubudukwane - a headache.

The previous MP, Isaac Mabiletsa tried to fight for the repair of the roads to no avail. By then, Mabiletsa informed Mmegi that a tender was awarded for the construction of Mmamashia-Modipane road and that government later cancelled the project due to recession.

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