Govan Mbeki Municipality creates awareness about road safety
Officials handed flyers to motorists that informed them about the importance of the driver and passengers wearing seat belts.
The Govan Mbeki Municipality and other role players held an awareness campaign to promote road safety on the R546 outside Walker Park Golf Club on March 31.
With the coming Easter weekend, the campaign aimed to minimise accidents
The theme was Road Safety, Our Priority and traffic officers checked vehicles for roadworthiness, expired driver’s licenses and discs, registration plates and any other suspicious or illegal things.
Home Affairs was on standby to help verify foreign nationals’ documents.
The role players handed flyers to motorists that informed them about the importance of the driver and passengers wearing seat belts, sticking to the speed limits, the dangers of drinking and driving or walking, texting and driving, driver’s fatigue and pedestrian visibility.
The MMC for Community Services, Mavis Nsibande, and the municipal manager, Elliot Maseko, attended the campaign, and the MMC thanked all the stakeholders involved.
The spokesperson of the Govan Mbeki Municipality, Lucky Mhlongo, said the campaign would continue throughout the school holidays.
He thanked Sasol Secunda Security, the Evander Police, the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison (the provincial traffic and road safety education), the Department of Home Affairs (immigration), the Department of Health (Evander Hospital), Eskom, Rotek, the Vukanini Taxi Association and MavCorp for their support.
