Fikile Mbalula launches Festive Season Safety Campaign

Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula launches the Festive Season Safety Campaign at Harrismith Airport (Intabazwe Aerospace) in the Free State, which aims to clamp down on lawlessness on the road this festive.

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He will be assessing law enforcements readiness as the festive season draws closer and will inspect over 500 traffic officials, showcase law enforcement technology such as vehicle fitted with moving recording devices, number plate recognition technology, mobile vehicle testing stations as well as crash simulators and drones.

“Yesterday a bus full of people burned down. It was travelling from Cape Town to Zimbabwe.

The people lost all their belongings and the money they had been saving over the year to take home to their loved ones is gone.

Without the media, we would not know such things. The media a critical part of informing society and partnering with us, they not making us a favour they saving lives.”

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