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News24 reports that the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has initiated an investigation after a video emerged on social media showing its workers using a regular vehicle to conduct road maintenance in Norwood, instead of a construction vehicle.
The video shows two officials compacting and levelling asphalt onto a newly filled pothole, by driving back and forth over it with a branded Isuzu. "What the officials were seen doing in the video is against the JRA’s standards and norms on road maintenance works and such behaviour is highly regrettable and condemned," the JRA said. It has since placed the two officials on "precautionary" suspension. "Necessary steps and actions will be taken to hold the officials in question accountable. In a bid to address the regrettable matter as speedily as possible, an investigation report will be submitted to the Office of the Chief Executive Officer in no later than 48 hours," the JRA advised. It added that it prided itself on carrying out its work in the most "professional, correct, and respectable" way, "without compromising its reputation and the safety and wellbeing of the people it was tasked to serve.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marvin Charles at News24
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