Transport department
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 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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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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Gauteng Transport MEC Mamabolo condemns spate of violence in freight industry
Mamabolo's comments come just hours after two trucks were torched on the N12 near Daveyton in Ekurhuleni on Wednesday.
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Commuters urged to use alternative transport on Wednesday amid taxi march
The National Taxi Association (NTA) on Tuesday said drivers would be marching to Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula’s office and the Presidency in Tshwane at the Union Buildings to submit a memorandum of demands.
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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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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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NTA demands govt pay out R1.8bn promised to industry within 10 days
Earlier this year, the Transport Department made a commitment to provide the money to the industry in an attempt to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
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There should be no room for criminality in taxi industry, says MEC Madikizela
Madikizela and Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Thursday led a provincial taxi lekgotla in Cape Town.
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Crew members on ships expected to produce COVID-19 test certificates - Mbalula
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Friday briefed the media on travel regulations under the new level.
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Santaco taxi shutdown under way in Gauteng as group rejects R1bn govt aid
Commuters in Gauteng are once again caught in the middle of a dispute between taxi associations and government, meaning thousands would have no means to travel around the province from Monday morning.
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Mbalula gazettes new regulations to have testing centres operating in June
They come as the country prepares to enter into the level three lockdown.
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Transport Dept's ability to provide masks, sanitiser in taxis questioned
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has promised that his department would provide masks and sanitiser for taxi commuters.
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Protesting Uber, Bolt drivers want dept's intervention over pay, safety issues
Drivers staged a disruptive protest on Wednesday raising concerns over security and the payment arrangements they have with their companies.
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Transport Dept to clarify status of e-tolls
There was mudslinging civil disobedience campaigns protests and political infighting over e-tolls.
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Mbalula calls for road users to play their part in safety
During the weekend, at least 40 people were killed in crashes, 23 of those deaths were in the Western Cape.
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Aarto will help reduce fatalities, says dept after bloody weekend on roads
The accidents occurred in the Western Cape, The Free State, Kwazulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
