Western Cape MEC of Education Debbie
Schafer on Monday said it is time that communities change behaviours and
attitudes towards road safety.
This as this year alone at least 55 small
children have been knocked down and killed on roads in the province; most were
killed on busy roads in the Metro.
MEC Schafer said a large number of children
pedestrian deaths occur in poorer communities.
Ministerial Spokesperson for the Department
of Transport and Public Works Siphesihle Dube said MEC Schafer visited Nkazimlo Primary School in Makhaza,
Khayelitsha on Monday which was the sight where as a young boy Inga Mtekwana
was killed in August this year, when he was run over by a taxi at the scholar
patrol outside the school.
“MEC Schafer highlighted the need for
better visibility and a focus on improving the conditions in which children
travel to and from school” Dube added.
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