The Eastern Cape Department of Transport will provide learners and drivers licence training to six people with disabilities in the province this year.
This was announced by Transport, Roads and Public Works MEC Thandiswa Marawu during the presentation of her policy speech at the Eastern Cape Legislature in Bhisho this afternoon.
The selection of candidates will be done in partnership with the Eastern Cape Disability Economic Empowerment Trust (ECDEET) and Disabled People of South Africa (DPSA).
This follows the success of a pilot project, which targeted people with disabilities within and outside the department in the last financial year.
“This effort is a mandatory integration and mainstreaming of disabilities into departmental programmes, especially the core functions as a model of transformation. We have a responsibility as government to ensure that we adhere to the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Employment Equity Act, Code of Good Practice on the Employment of People with Disabilities,” said MEC Marawu.
She has called upon:
- The driving schools of the province to make means to accommodate disabled people.
- Municipalities to ensure that their traffic departments have instructors and testing officers, who are orientated or trained to deal with disabled people.
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