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Makhado Municipality under fire for neglected swimming pools (Photos)

R4 million allocated, no progress: residents demand answers

By Bernard Chiguvare • 20 November 2025
Makhado Municipality under fire for  neglected swimming pools (Photos)

Residents of Eltivillas and Louis Trichardt are frustrated by the decade-long delay in refurbishing their municipal swimming pools, despite R4 million allocated per pool. The derelict facilities fuel suspicions of privatization or corruption within the Makhado Municipality, with officials failing to provide answers.

Residents of Eltivillas and Louis Trichardt are growing increasingly frustrated over the long delay in refurbishing the two municipal swimming pools in the residential areas, which have been out of use for many years. Some believe the facilities may have been effectively privatised, while others suspect corruption within the Makhado Municipality is to blame.

In 2020, the newspaper reported that the Louis Trichardt swimming pool had been meant to reopen in September 2015. A decade later,...

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