“It’s your call” – Finance committee tells North West

MAHIKENG MAIL - MAHIKENG: The Select Committee on Finance has called for a high-level decision by the relevant government authorities regarding the future use of the Mahikeng Airport (renamed Dick Montshioa Airport) in the North West Province during a recent two-day oversight visit to the province.
The committee conducted an inspection of the airport and was briefed by the provincial Department of Community Safety and Transport Management on a proposal to repurpose the facility into a cargo-focused airport, an aviation training school or an aircraft maintenance hub. The committee was informed that an estimated R1 billion was required to refurbish and upgrade the airport infrastructure.
Opened in 1984, the Mahikeng Airport ceased commercial operations in 2014 due to insufficient passenger numbers to sustain viable airline services.

By Phenyo Mokgothu

MAHIKENG MAIL - MAHIKENG: October is Transport Month in South Africa, but there is not much to celebrate as the country’s economy is paying the price for decades of underinvestment and neglect in its transport system.
Failing roads, crumbling railways and inefficient ports are costing the country billions of rands and undermining its global competitiveness, according to transport analyst Dr Olebogeng Baikgaki of the North-West University (NWU).

MAHIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: Concerned by years of public criticism from residents under the Mahikeng Local Municipality complaining bitterly about the poor status of local roads, the Mayor of the city, Councillor Tshepiso Mphehlo, has again displayed his intent to stop the labelling of his city as the “Capital of Potholes”.

MAHIKENG MAIL - MAHIKENG: The North West Department of Public Works and Roads has finally decided to act against the large number of heavy-duty trucks that continually crowd Mahikeng streets, to the irking of local residents and more so, local road users.