Pretoria - Transport Minister Dipuo Peters today met with all of the department’s, 12 state owned entities where she urged the entities to show solidarity in their work when it comes to road safety.
This, the minister said, would reduce the number of fatal crashes.
“This would result in a reduction in fatal crashes, which in turn would bring huge savings on the country's resources that could be channelled to other areas of serious need.
“But most importantly, it would bring huge relief to human suffering and long-term emotional and psychological scars to affected families,” said Minister Peters.
She also called on the entities to raise their intake of youth participation in their programmes.
The adoption of the National Development Plan (NDP) came into sharp focus, with entities showing commitment to centre their strategic and annual performance plans within the NDP.
Wednesday’s meeting was the first the minister had with the entities since her and her deputy Sindisiwe Chikunga’s deployment back to the Department of Transport.
For entities whose boards and CEOs terms are nearing an end soon, the Minister directed that planning to address the legal requirements process for bringing in new Boards and CEOs be started earlier rather later.
This is to avoid late and long drawn processes that normally undermine delivery of services.
For 2013/4 financial, all entities in the Transport Department received clean audits, she revealed. She commended them and called on them not to drop their guard. - SAnews.gov.za
