The MEC for Police, Roads and Transport in the Free State, honourable Butana Komphela will attend women’s month road block at N3, Villiers on the 19 August 2011, as part of Free State provincial government women’s month programme. The road block will start at 10h00am.
The year 2010 marked the commencement of the decade of African Women (2010-2020) as declared by the Heads of States of the African Union and our purpose as a province is to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of women and honor their role in shaping the course of our nation's history by fighting crime, promoting safety, rehabilitating our citizens and bringing stability in the workplace.
The challenges that are face by women in uniform today are of a different kind. One of them is the carnage on our roads. The United Nations’ Declaration: Make our Roads Safe: A Decade of Action enjoins us to reduce the carnage on our roads by 50% come 2020. South Africa has adopted the National Rolling Enforcement Plan as a strategy to realise this objective.
In terms of this strategy the National Department of Transport has committed to stop one million vehicles per month and Free state Department of Police, Roads and Transport has committed to contribute 65 000 vehicles per month so that national can reach the target.
It is against this background that the Department of Police, Roads and Transport will host two inter provincial Roadblocks with our neighbouring provinces during this month.
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The first inter provincial roadblock will take place on 19 August 2011 at Villiers. This joint operation will be done with Mpumalanga province and the roadblock on 25 August 2011 will be done jointly with KwaZulu-Natal. The operations shall be led by Women officers. MEC Butana Komphela would be joined by four female MEC’s in the province and Members of the provincial legislature.
MEC Butana Komphela would like to invite all media houses to these important activities in the calendar of the Free State provincial government.
Enquiries:Saki Mohono
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