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,...