Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has said
efforts to ensure that traffic policing was a 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week
activity were under way.
They are engaging with all traffic
authorities in the country and traffic officers through relevant channels to
ensure that the implementation of this intervention does not negatively affect circumstances
of service of their officers and must all appreciate that safety on our roads
is a collective responsibility he went on further.
This after 23 people were killed on Western
Cape roads over the weekend. Other fatalities were reported in the Free State,
KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
Western Cape traffic chief Kenny Africa
said the fatalities were between weekend. Of the 23, 14 were passengers, four
were drivers, and five were pedestrians.
The figure included the death of 10 construction
workers who were killed on Saturday when the bakkie they were travelling in
overturned on Ou Kaapseweg. This while the City’s traffic officials
arrested 47 intoxicated motorists and issued 1486 fines for various other
offences.
Safety and Security mayco member JP Smith
said: They will increase our efforts to ensure that motorists abide by the laws
of the road to make it safer, and to bring those who transgress to book.
By: Aneeqa du Plessis
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