DA closer to winning the battle of declaring Gauteng Traffic Police an essential service to ensure 24-hour monitoring of Gauteng roads
10 March 2022
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng is closer to winning the battle of declaring the Gauteng Traffic Police an essential service to ensure 24-hour monitoring of Gauteng roads and the safety of road users.
This follows a public announcement by the Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula on the Road Traffic Management Corporation Twitter page which states the following “We must move with speed to finalise outstanding processes that will enable us to declare traffic policing a 24-hour, 7-day job. I appeal to those of you who have yet to conclude your respective processes to do so with speed.”
This is a step in the right direction as the lives of motorists are in danger because there is no monitoring of Gauteng roads at night as the Gauteng Traffic Police does not operate 24 hours a day.
For the longest time, the DA has consistently been demanding that the Gauteng Department of Community Safety must declare the Gauteng Traffic Police an essential service to ensure 24-hour monitoring of our roads.