Eighty learners from high schools across the North West province are to participate in the Annual Provincial Participatory Education Technique (PET) programme contest to showcase solutions to road safety challenges in their communities.
The competition is to be held s from 10h00 on Friday, 30 September 2011, at the Mmabana Taung Centre in Greater Taung in the North West Province.
North West MEC for Human Settlements, Public Safety & Liaison, Ms Desbo Mohono is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the opening ceremony. The main objective of the PET as a national flagship programme is to encourage learners to identify road safety related problems affecting their communities and to finding solutions by way of research hereby empowering them with a hands on opportunity to solve their community road safety problems.
The programme in its third year is led by the Road Safety Directorate within the Public Safety Branch of MEC Mohono’s department and implemented in partnership with the Department of Education.
Research workshops were conducted by the Road Safety Officers in August to empower participating school teams, who are to be adjudicated on models and presentations illustrating their community road safety problem and researched solutions.
Enquiries:
Lesiba Moses Kgwele
Tel: 018 391 0140
Fax: 018 381 0328
Cell: 083 629 1987
E-mail: LKgwele@nwpg.gov.za
