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Mbalula: Minibus fatal crashes dropped from 11.1% to 8.2% over festive season
But 1,448 people still lost their lives on our roads.
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Mbalula: Out with the 0.5% and in with the 0% alcohol law this year
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said the number of fatalities on the roads this festive season saw a decline of 7% with 1,448 deaths recorded.
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Mbalula remembers Bheki Ntuli: ‘He was a servant for the people’
Those who were part of the small service on Thursday paid glowing tributes to him.
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Mbalula: SACAA issued notice to airlines over new curfew
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has urged travellers to check the revised travel schedules, which are impacted by the new curfew of 9 pm to 6 am.
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Mbalula says authorities to enforce curfew to stop carnage on the roads
The minister on Tuesday released the Transport Department’s 2020 festive season preliminary road statistics, saying there was a decline in road fatalities in six provinces in the past 20 days.
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690 people died on SA’s roads since December started - Mbalula
The Department of Transport has set a target to ensure a 20% decline in fatalities this festive season.
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Mbalula announces grace period for driver’s licences that expired from 26 March
Transport Department spokesperson Ayanda Allie-Paine said: “There was a flurry of people trying to renew their documentation and we also had a stop-start phenomenon because whenever there was a positive case, we’d have to shut down operations.”
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Drunk drivers on traffic officials’ radar this festive season
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula unveiled his plan to reduce the carnage on the roads over the holiday period in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
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Mbalula vows transport sector won't 'enable' festive season COVID-19 spike
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula unveiled the festive season campaign for safer roads in the National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon.
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NTA refuses to recognise taxi lekgotla resolutions
On Wednesday, thousands of taxi operators affiliated to the alliance marched in Pretoria to spell out their grievances.
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The jig is up – Mbalula on theft, vandalism, sabotage of SA's rail system
Fikile Mbalula told Parliament that passenger rail agency Prasa was contending with organised crime syndicates sabotaging the rail network, which its new security plan is intended to address.
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Mbalula to establish task team to implement changes needed in taxi industry
The national taxi lekgotla was concluded over the past weekend.
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Mbalula: Taxi industry will be subsidised from April next year
Mbalula said his department would work with Treasury and the taxi sector.
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Taxi lekgotla to proceed as scheduled, self-isolating Mbalula to join virtually
This comes after an announcement from President Cyril Ramaphosa's office that he's in self-isolation after a guest he'd attended a dinner with over the weekend tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday.
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Pay what you promised: NTA heads to court to force govt to pay relief fund
Earlier this year, the Transport Department made a commitment to give the industry over R1.8 billion to help it combat the coronavirus.
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AA stands by claim that Aarto aims to garner revenue, not promote road safety
The association said the contentious piece of legislation contains a tax, which could see motorists paying an additional R100 fee for every fine that they incur.
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In addition to traffic fines, motorists now face an infringement penalty levy
The latest draft of the Aarto Act will see South African motorists pay an additional R100 for every fine that they receive.
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Mbalula sends condolences to families of 13 people killed in KZN crash
The incident, which involved a minibus taxi and a truck, took place on the R66 between Ulundi and Melmoth.
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Mbalula: Work is under way to get Cape Town's rail network back on track
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) is investing over R1 billion to repair the line.
