Easter Season message from the Minister of Transport
Fellow South Africans,
The Easter season is upon us and the period is generally characterised by high traffic volumes in different parts of our country with fatalities over this period remaining high.
We owe it to ourselves, our families, our communities and our country to behave in a responsible manner on our roads. We need to do so with the knowledge that our roads are a shared space.
I am humbled by the responses we continuously receive from many of our transport industry leaders in the private sector in support of the call to work together in introducing programs that targets the behaviour of drives as well as introducing improvements in the safety features of vehicles and vehicle components.
Remember, road crashes and fatalities are preventable – and it is always our collective responsibility to support every effort possible to curb this unnecessary pain.
Working together let us use the Easter season to reaffirm our commitment to the UN Decades of Action for Road Safety which seeks to stabilise and reduce road fatalities by 50% in 2020.
I take this time to pay tribute to our Traffic Law Enforcement Officers, the South African Police Service (SAPS), South African National Defence Force (SANDF), Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and health practitioners who will be working to give off their time to ensure that our laws are implemented and offer their services that people on our roads are safe, secure and comfortable.
I am appealing to all South African to take note that those who engage in drunk driving, excessive speeding, negligent and the overall transgression of the National Traffic Act and Traffic Regulations will be punished.
Our call for road safety should reverberate in our homes, in our workplaces in hospitals, in places of worship, our freeways, shebeens, recreational venues and by-ways.
United in one voice let us say:
Don’t drink and drive
Wear seat belts
Don’t text and drive
Don’t drink and walk
Don’t speed
Let us choose life and not death
#BeingSafeIsCool #RoadSafety
Enquiries:
Ishmael Mnisi
Cell: 072 566 0827
