The Department of Transport under the leadership of Minister Dipuo Peters, will host a first-ever, two-day National Youth Summit on Road Safety from the 25th to 26th June 2016 at the St. George Hotel, Irene, in Gauteng Province.
To be held under the theme: #Beingsafeiscool, the Summit will be officially opened by Minister Peters. The Minister will be joined by Transport MECs and a Road Safety delegation from the United Nations (UN). South Africa is a participant in the UN’s Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 campaign, signed at the first global conference for Ministers of Transport in 2009 in Russia with the aim of reducing the road carnage worldwide.
The purpose of the National Youth Road Safety Summit is to have youth in South Africa organised and participating meaningfully and decisively in road safety programmes of the Department with the aim of reducing road carnage among young people and the citizenry at large.
This National Summit is a culmination of provincial youth summits held in the provinces, which deliberated on issues of road safety affecting the youth.
Young people from various groups and formations across the nine provinces will attend the Summit.
Details are as follows:
Date: Saturday, 25 June 2016
Time: 9h00
Venue: St. George Hotel, Irene (58 Doornkloof Goede Hoop Avenue, M57, Reitvleidam)
Members of the media attending the event are requested to contact Motlatsi Lebea on 076 323 9333 or lebeam@dot.gov.za.
Enquiries:
Ishmael Mnisi
Cell: 072 566 0827
