Question NW322 to the Minister of Transport

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06 March 2017 - NW322

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Figlan, Mr AM to ask the Minister of Transport

(a) What pedestrian road safety education and information campaigns are in place, (b) where have these campaigns taken place in each month in the past three financial years, (c) how are the successes and failures of these campaigns assessed, (d) what amount has been spent on these campaigns in the past three financial years and (e) who conducts these campaigns?

Reply:

a)  The Pedestrian road safety programmes focus mainly on those factors that lead to pedestrians being involved in road crashes and those are in the main:

  • Impaired walking, this focuses on drinking and walking. People who drink and walk are at a greater risk of being involved in a crash as their ability to act swiftly to avoid a crash is impaired. As such a need is there to educate people about the dangers inherent in drinking and walking.
  • Dangerous walking – specifically jay walking. There is a disturbing trend of people who walk freely on national and provincial roads that have high volumes of traffic and multi lanes. This is notwithstanding those who jay walk in built up areas. Our statistics show that quite a substantial number of pedestrians are victims of jaywalking.
  • Distracted walking, this relates walking while using a cell phone or listening to music on one’s headphones. It mostly applies to the youth. This results in the person not having a full appreciation of the happening around him or her. Thus rendering them vulnerable to a potential crash. The pedestrians are then educated and made aware of this danger.

b)  where have these campaigns taken place in each month in the past three financial years,

Year

2014

2015

2016

 

Month

 

Location

 

Province

 

Hoffman Square, Bloemfontein

Tumahole, Parys

 

Free State

January

Vosloorus; Pretoria

 

 

Gauteng

Year

2014

2015

2016

Month

Location

Province

 

Colesburg; Noupoort

Colesburg&Noupoort

 

Northern Cape

 

Tlhabane

 

 

North West

February

Paledi Spar, Polokwane

 

 

Limpopo

 

 

Klerksdorp

 

North West

 

 

De Aar; Haartswater

 

Northern Cape

 

 

Bree Street, Johannesburg

 

Gauteng

March

 

Paarl

 

Western Cape

 

 

Parys; Kroonstad

 

Free State

 

 

Midrand

 

Gauteng

 

 

Pietermaritzburg

 

KwaZulu-Natal

 

Cradock

 

 

Eastern Cape

 

 

Bloemfontein; March

 

Free State

 

 

Ratanda

 

Gauteng

 

 

 

Galeshewe

Northern Cape

 

 

 

Phagameng, Modimolle

Limpopo

 

 

Rustenburg

 

North West

April

Athlone

 

 

Western Cape

 

 

 

Pietrmaritzburg

KwaZulu-Natal

 

 

 

Alzu

Mpumalanga

 

Cradock

 

 

Eastern Cape

 

Modimolle

 

Phalaborwa; Giyani

Limpopo

 

Valhalla, Pretoria

 

 

Gauteng

 

Ficksburg

Sasolburg

 

Free State

 

 

 

Galeshewe

Northern Cape

May

Chatsworth; Edendale

 

 

KwaZulu-Natal

 

Randfontein

 

Chiawelo, Soweto

Gauteng

 

Du Noon

 

 

Western Cape

 

 

 

Galeshewe

Northern Cape

Year

2014

2015

2016

Month

Location

Province

     

Thohoyandou

Limpopo

June

Gugulethu

 

Khayelitsha; Goodwood

Western Cape

 

Mthatha; Cofimvaba

 

East London

Eastern Cape

 

Dobsonville, Soweto

Thokoza Park, Soweto

Hammanskraal; Dlamini and Chiawelo

Gauteng

 

 

 

Mperebere; Mogwase

North West

 

 

 

Modimolle

Limpopo

 

 

 

Bloemfontein

Free State

 

 

 

John Daka, Kimberley

Northern Cape

 

 

 

Market Square, Pietermaritzburg

KwaZulu-Natal

 

 

 

eMalahleni

Mpumalanga

July

Delft

 

Rondebosch

Western Cape

 

 

 

Alice

Eastern Cape

 

Montrose

Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein

Free State

 

 

 

Belabela

Limpopo

 

 

 

Caledon

Western Cape

 

 

Middleburg

Alzu

Mpumalanga

 

Kenilworth

 

 

KwaZulu-Natal

August

Middleburg

 

eMalahleni

Mpumalanga

 

 

Klerksdorp; Rustenburg

Ikageng, Potchefstroom

North West

 

Richardsbay

 

Portshepstone

KwaZulu-Natal

 

Kranskop

 

Mashaba

Limpopo

 

Midrand

 

 

Gauteng

 

 

Kiwane

 

Eastern Cape

 

 

Kimberley

De Aar

Northern Cape

September

 

University of Free State

Kroonstad

Free State

 

Modimolle; Polokwane

Sibasa

Polokwane

Limpopo

 

Volksrust

 

Nghodwana

Mpumalanga

 

 

Gugulethu

Overberg

Western Cape

October

Benoni

 

 

Gauteng

 

Sasolburg

Kroonstad

 

Free State

 

 

 

Polokwane

Limpopo

         

Year

2014

2015

2016

Month

Location

Province

November

 

Hazyview; Bushbuckridge

Kuruman

Nortern Cape

 

 

 

Caledon

Western Cape

 

 

 

Lichtenburg; Potchefstroom

North West

 

Hazyview; Bushbuckridge

Middleburg

 

Mpumalanga

 

Heidelburg

Heidleburg

 

Gauteng

 

Ethekwini

Ethekwini

 

KwaZulu-Natal

December

 

 

GraafReinet

Eastern Cape

 

 

 

Alzu

Mpumalanga

 

 

Modimolle

Belabela; Kranskop

Limpopo

 

 

 

Equestria; Pretoria

Gauteng

 

 

 

Portshepstone

KwaZulu-Natal

 

 

Bloemfontein; Kroonstad

 

 

c)  The department through the RTMC monitors the implementation and evaluates the impact of the programmes. The findings are then used to enhance the implementation so as to ensure effective and efficient utilisation of resource. The RTMC also reports on the crash data and this also depicts the situation as it pertains to the performance of road safety programmes. Thus assessing the effectiveness of the campaigns.

d)  The spending on these campaigns in the past three financial years

2014: R9 million

2015: R5 million

2016: R21 million

(e)  The department, provinces, municipalities and the road entities in line with their legislative mandate. There are instances where the department and its entities have entered into partnerships with the private sector for this purpose. This is premised on the notion that road safety is everybody’s responsibility.

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