Transport Deputy Minister to distribute over 700 bicycles in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga
The Deputy Minister of Transport, Mr Lisa Mangcu will, on Wednesday, 06 March 2024 symbolically distribute and hand over more than 700 bicycles to deserving learners from schools in the Nkomazi Local Municipality in the Mpumalanga province.
The Shova Kalula National Bicycle project of the Department of Transport was introduced as a pilot in 2001 to alleviate transport pressure on poor households and has benefited more than 24 000 deserving learners to date who walk more than 3 kilometres to 5 kilometres to and from school daily.
Over 700 learners from Sidlemu, Mphoti, Kobi and Majembeni Primary as well as Sigweje, Dlamadoda and Lomahashe Secondary are among the schools that will benefit from the initiative.
Preceding the handover of the bicycles, Deputy Minister Mangcu will take the learner beneficiaries through Cycling Safety Education Awareness lessons to encourage proper road user behaviour and safe cycling.
Deputy Minister Mangcu will be joined during the handover by the political leadership of the Province and Municipality as well as the leadership of the schools, parents and stakeholders.
The details of the Deputy Minister’s Shova Kalula Bicycles Distribution programme are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
Time: 10h30 for 11h00
Venue: Sidlemu Primary School, Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga
Members of the media attending the event are requested to confirm attendance with Tshegofatso Maake on 063 281 9453 or maaket@dot.gov.za or Ivy Masale on 076 789 5538 or masalei@dot.gov.za
Media Contact:
Collen Msibi - National Spokesperson
Cell: 066 476 9015
