Centane residents and taxi drivers forked out their last cents, rolled up their sleeves and fixed a badly damaged Khobonqaba bridge where two people died when the bakkie they were travelling in was swept away by strong currents nearly two weeks ago.
When you drive along roads or over bridges in the Eastern Cape, you see something quite remarkable: An odd patchwork of infrastructure of bridges and roads so badly deteriorated that the communities who use them have given up on waiting for the government to do something and are making the repairs themselves.