115 years without tar
According to the Road Agency of Limpopo (RAL) there are 13 828km of gravel roads in the province. With the current budget (R 1.27bn per year) it would take 115 years to tar all of these roads – not including maintenance of already tarred roads. RAL says that they would need R138bn to fund this upgrade. Currently only 31% or 6 263km of Limpopo’s roads are tarred.