Mbasa
Gqokoma
12
March 2016
Transport
Minister Dipuo Peters has revealed South Africa's road death toll exceeds the
global average.
Peters
was leading a discussion at the National Road Safety Strategy Engagement and
Development Summit in Johannesburg.
Various
road agencies and NGOs have gathered at Gallagher Estate today to make their
contribution to a new road safety strategy.
The
minister says “I will then present a
document before Parliament on the resolutions made at the summit today.”
She
says “Road carnage in South Africa is at shocking
levels. She says road deaths have a negative effect on the economy too.”
Peters
says her department is working with the justice ministry to ensure harsher
penalties for irresponsible motorists.
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