16 May 2019

Construction works for the road which links Mabeleapudi and Tshimoyapula to Serule in the Central District is progressing well despite being behind schedule.

The Serowe Administrative Authority (SAA), District Officer, Mr Charles Modise said in an interview that the project started last year on May 14  through the Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) and was expected to be completed in May 2020.

He said the project was at 19 per cent and behind the schedule by 18 per cent against the target progress of 37 per cent.

He said the road project had been awarded to UNIK construction at a contract amount of over P427 million while the project is designed and supervised by a consultant of HERBCO Technical Services (Pty) Ltd.

Scope of works comprises of a fresh construction of approximately 62kilometres of road between the villages of Mabeleapudi and Serule, including around six kilometres of access roads to Tshimoyapula and Serule villages.He stated that five burrow pit mining rights were issued at the end of February, adding that currently the contractor was sub-grading road layer for section one and they were working on the roadbed for section two as well as constructing the bridge.

The company has employed local people around the area and sub-contracted Batswana contractors.

He said 30 homesteads have been compensated to pave way for the road while one person refused. ENDS