Is oversight being overlooked in favour of profit?
Every year the Department of Transport generates a huge surplus, but does this translate into better services and facilities for those who fund it?
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The Clarion call
A clarion call, says the Cambridge dictionary, is a very clear message or instruction about what action is needed. Something must have happened while we were sleeping.
14 000 dead. And we have a plan?
Despite many “plans” over the last two decades, road safety levels in South Africa have continued to decline post-1994 – with horrific effect. So what’s the plan now?
It makes no cents
Road safety in South Africa is in a shambles, yet it doesn’t get the funds it so desperately needs – and that makes no sense.
Keys please, Dad …
Road carnage, e-tolling and incompetent officials – all an unfortunate sign of the times. But stress behind the wheel existed back when “road safety programmes” involved laying tar over gravel, e-anything related to something in science fiction, and the incompetent authority figure was your dad teaching you bad habits.
AARTO schmarto
With a gun-slingin’ approach to law enforcement and a tendency to break the very laws their jobs are based on, our governmental and law-enforcement departments can’t seem to get it right. Reminds me of the wild, wild west.
Same team, new coach
Cabinets have been reshuffled and we now have a new transport coach and deputy. Will they get back to basics and take heed of the real issues to improve road safety?
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