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Court orders road repairs between Alldays and Pondrift

Court ruling exposes service delivery failures on R521

By Andries van Zyl • 25 June 2026
Court orders road repairs between Alldays and Pondrift

A farm successfully sued for government's failure to maintain a provincial road, but the wrong road agency was cited. Despite the jurisdictional error, the case highlights the ongoing issue of neglected public infrastructure. Remedial work is now underway on the road.

In yet another example of citizens having to approach the courts to compel government to fulfil its service delivery obligations, the Polokwane High Court on 27 May ruled in favour of a local farm over the state of the provincial road between Alldays and the Pondrift Border Post (R521) — only for it to emerge afterwards that the wrong authority had been cited as respondent.

The case, brought by Richmond Boerdery CC (applicant) against Road Agency Limpopo SOC Ltd (RAL) as respondent, res...

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