1400 road deaths over festive season

Pretoria – Transport Minister Ben Martins has announced that 1 465 people lost their lives on the country’s roads during the festive season.

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Road safety campaign goes to Durban

Pretoria – Transport Deputy Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga will today interact with holidaymakers in a Road Safety Beach Festival at Durban’s…
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Drivers urged to obey rules of the road

Pretoria – Transport Minister Ben Martins has appealed to motorists to drive safely and to prioritise life, particularly over the festive season.

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Mandela scholarship to promote road safety

Pretoria – As Mandela Day fever gripped the country on Monday, the Department of Transport followed suit by unveiling what it called the Zenani Mandela Road Safety Scholarship.

Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele launched the initiative, named after 13-year-old Zenani who was killed in a car cras

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Road safety campaign for schools

Pretoria – The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) is taking its road safety campaign to schools in a bid to reduce the number of road accidents and promote the correct use of road infrastructure.

JRA spokesperson Nkosana Lekotjolo said the objective of the campaign was to make children of Johannesb

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World mobilises to cut down road fatalities

Pretoria – From South Africa to New Zealand, to Mexico and all the way to the Russian Federation, governments are committing to take new steps to save lives on their roads.
Dozens of countries around the world kick off the first global Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 on May 11.

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Easter road safety awareness

Pretoria – Johannesburg metro police officers will be out in full force during the coming Easter period to promote road safety and act decisively against offenders who place the lives of other road users in danger.

Chief of the JMPD, Chris Ngcobo, said they will use Operation Safer Easter to zon

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NW terminates road construction contract

Pretoria – The North West Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport has terminated a road construction contract worth R208 million.

“We have fired Kaulani Civils (Pty) Limited, the company contracted to construct the road between Koster and Lichtenburg, for non- performance and failure to

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Limpopo to spend R452m on preventative road maintenance

Polokwane – An amount of R452 million will be spent over the next year on the preventative maintenance of Limpopo’s roads.

Roads and Transport MEC Pinky Kekana told the provincial legislature this week that her department had already identified 32 roads projects across the province.

“It is g

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‘Obey the rules of the road this long weekend’

Pretoria – Transport Minister Sbusiso Ndebele has called on road users to obey the rules of the road this upcoming long weekend.

The nation celebrates Human Rights Day on Monday, 21 March, which is a public holiday.

“We call upon all road users to obey all rules and exercise human rights on

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