MEC MORWENG WELCOMED THE SIMULATION OF READINESS ON ROADM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EVENT AT SKILPADHEK BORDER POST NEAR ZEERUST

The MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management Wessels Morweng have encouraged road users more so those who uses the N4 that links South Africa and Botswana towards other SADC countries to be compliant. He made the call during the Road Incident Management System Simulation Event that took place at the Skilpadhek border post near Zeerust.
The plan of the simulation was to assess the state of readiness in cases of a real –life scenario and the capacity building. The N4 that stretches from Maputo in Mozambique, through three Provinces inside South Africa and go via Botswana to Namibia is one of the busiest and economic route that ensures that goods travel to those four countries and even further up through Zambia to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
MEC Morweng said the simulation event came at the time when the department is preparing for October Transport Month activities and called on travellers to ensure that they keep road incidents to a minimum and comply with regulations as non-compliance won’t be tolerated.
MEC Morweng have also called on the law enforcement agencies between two countries to be vigilant against the transgressors including those who transport illegal cargoes that include illegal cigarettes and drugs. There have been several arrests recently of several people transporting illegal cigarettes and the largest drugs bust being crystal meth with the street value of more than 38 million rand.

MEC Morweng have promised to engage all role players to make request that road be broadened but also to see how they can try and reduce the congestions of trucks which have become the order of the day at the border.
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