Limpopo’s Transport MEC Makoma Makhurupetje has ascribed the province’s sterling performance in the 2017
festive season to ‘Operation Ndadzi’ and the hardworking traffic and police officers who worked tirelessly to ensure road safety.
Limpopo was a star performer at the release of the preliminary festive season fatalities earlier this week after recording a 27% decrease in road fatalities.
Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi told reporters in Pretoria that South Africa’s festive season road death toll
decreased by a significant 11% to 1 527, compared to 1 714 fatalities recorded in the same period of the previous year, “Our preliminary festive season fatalities for the period starting 1 December 2017 to 9 January 2018 show that there were 1 527 people who died on the roads in that period compared to 1 714 fatalities in the same period the previous year,” says Maswanganyi.
“This represents an 11% decline which surpassed the 10% target. When considering the entire holiday period from 1 December 2017 to 15 January 2018, there were 1 676 fatalities compared to 1 875 fatalities for the same period in the previous year.”
Maswanganyi says as a result of concerted efforts from law enforcement agencies, with cooperation from the judiciary, a festive season plan was well executed, which resulted in noticeable declines in the number of fatalities in South Africa’s seven provinces, with the exception of the Western Cape and the North West, which
recorded seven percent, and 11% increases respectively.
