North West MEC for Public Safety, Howard Yawa says that provincial and municipal traffic authorities have adopted a zero tolerance towards speeding and drunken driving in order to achieve the five percent target set the decrease in road fatalities during this year’s festive season. MEC Yawa formally launched the Arrive Alive Season Campaign that commenced at the beginning of this month on Thursday in Potchefstroom.
In his keynote address that called for the heat to be turned on lawlessness and criminality, MEC Yawa reported that as a result of intensified law enforcement on all national, provincial and local routes in the province, 2 539 summonses have thus far been issued to motorists for various traffic violations during the 23 657 roadside and vehicle fitness inspections conducted.
Though 452 unlicensed drivers, 178 motorists were arrested for drunken driving at 41 multipurpose roadblocks and 80 others for false documents, MEC stressed that this is but just the beginning, authorities will be turning the heat on against lawlessness.
“The Arrive Alive Festive Season Campaign is about saving lives therefore we have deployed speed machines so that every motorist who drives on our public roads and those who pass through our province remember it as the drive slow province,” Yawa said.
He added that the heat of the zero tolerance law enforcement during the festive season will be felt by motorists who disregard the law and cautioned motorists who behave on public roads sixties party held annually outside Mafikeng that this time around, law enforcement authorities will be ready for them “Moretlwa o tlile go ba lelela, Die Poppe Sal-Dans” translated “we are going to hit them very hard.”
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