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The R61 was damaged by heavy rains causing a culvert on the road to collapse.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Minister Mbalula will visit the area with the leadership of the Eastern Cape government to officially open and handover the road to the people of Cofimvaba.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: Government of South Africa<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Mbalula returns to Eastern Cape to officially open the R61 Bridge in TsomoEarlier this month, the Minister of Transport, Mr Fikile Mbalula visited Cofimvaba in Eastern Cape to conduct oversight visit on work done by South African Roads Agency &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minister Fikile Mbalula opens R61 Bridge in Eastern Cape at Tsomo, 28 Feb - 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