The Johannesburg Roads Agency has announced that it has been forced to delay pothole repairs.
"Road resurfacing and patching of potholes will be temporarily halted due to a shortage of Bitumen countrywide," it said in a statement.
Bitumen, it said, was a "oil-based, semi liquid substance which is used in the production of the asphalt mix for road surface construction."
The agency's acting managing director, Mpho Kau, said the shut down was due to maintenance at refineries which produce the substance.
"TOTAL and ENGEN are the only refineries that have confirmed operations will resume in early August 2015. The JRA Asphalt plant has therefore stopped production, and operations are expected to resume from the 10 of August 2015. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the matter,” Kau added.
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