The municipality indicated that a total of 5 600 household receive waste collection services and had one unlicensed land fill site. An application for funding has been made to the district. The Municipality had acquired two compactors and one 4 ton truck for weekly refuse collection. The contract between the municipality and two service providers for refuse collection has been terminated and the municipality performs the function. The municipality reported that they had a total of 30 kilometres of surfaced roads in Tshing and 40 kilometres in Ventersdorp town. Tshing has a backlog of 18 kilometres of road and Ventersdorp has 8 kilometres. It was reported that there were no surfaced roads in the villages. The municipality indicated that they had a roads maintenance plan but there was no funding to implement and provision shall be made in the budget for the next financial year.