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Ezethu, WEEK 38 transport Department: Transport PROVINCE OF KWAZULU-NATAL ezethu e -NEWSLETTER DOT Newsletter | Week 38| 26 September 2019 transport De partment: Transport P RO VINCE OF KW AZULU -NATAL SPORTS DAY Date: 27 Septe “ Tr a n s f o r m Ve mber 2019 i n g Tr nue: Newca a n s p o r t S e c stle Arbor Park Sports G t o r, G r o w i n g r t h e E conomy for Job Creation” ound 10H00 #sportsday Mandela Centenary Posters.indd 3 2/21/18 2:07 PM “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” – Mahatma Gandhi HEADLINENEWS MEC NTULI CALLS FOR MEASURES TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON KWAXIMBA ROAD MEC Bheki Ntuli and Ethekwini Mayor Cllr Mxolisi Kaunda inspecting the area of the accident at KwaXimba. The MEC for Transport, Community Ethekwini, Councilor Mxolisi Kaunda and to be set upon to look at what measures Safety and Liaison, Bheki Ntuli is today a local councilor on Saturday morning can be implemented. An intersection attending the memorial service of seven visited the area and it was discovered that has a taxi rank, police station, shops people who died in a horrendous road that the road had no signage and guard- and municipal offices in one vicinity re- accident in KwaXimba, outside Durban rails. quires all means of safety to be visible. on Friday 20 September 2019. We will be working closely with office Both the MEC and the Mayor committed of the Mayor and the local leadership to Ntuli has since called for the formation of to working together in ensuring that the address the safety challenges in KwaX- a task team comprising of officials from road in that area received urgent atten- imba”, said Ntuli. the Department of Transport and Ethek- tion. wini Municipality to look into measures This is the same road that claimed the “Upon inspection of the road where the that can be implemented to improve lives of seventeen people in 2017 in a crash occurred, it was evident that the road safety on the affected road. gruesome crash. –Sthembile Luthuli road needs urgent attention to erect sig- MEC Ntuli accompanied by the Mayor of nage and guardrails, thus a team needs ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN IS FLYING DOT FLAG HIGH The Department of Transport staff mem- involved in at KwaMhlanga in the Mpu- bers at the engineering section are walk- malanga Province. ing tall these days as one of their own Sithole, who was born and bred in a rural has been called by the Eminent Asso- town Mtubatuba, completed his Bache- ciation of Researchers in Humanities & lor of Science degree in Civil Engineering Management (EARHM) for oral presen- at the University of the Witwatersrand in tation at an international conference. 2015. Sandile Sithole (26), a Candidate Engi- neer who is currently completing his He then joined the private sector, work- master’s degree in engineering manage- ing for a company called AECOM as a ment at the University of Johannesburg, candidate civil engineer. He was involved will be doing his presentation at the In- in several project leadership roles and ternational Conference on Education, construction projects, including that of Economics, Humanities and Social Sci- the reconstruction of the Moloto Road ences that will take place in November KwaMhlanga. 2019 in Johannesburg. After working for almost four years at The main aim of this conference is to AECOM, he left to join the public sector bring together academics, scientists, re- and now works as a candidate Geomet- ric Design Engineer at the KwaZulu-Natal searchers’ engineers and practitioners Geometric Design Engineer Sandile Department of Transport. from all around the world to exchange Sithole and share their work and discuss the Sithole spoke so highly of Nqobile Zon- practical challenges encountered and do. “As a candidate engineer in the De- said Sithole. the solutions adopted. partment, I would like to thank my Chief He also expressed his appreciation for Sithole’s presentation will be based on Engineer in Geometric Design, Nqobile his research, ‘Influence of tribal councils Zondo. Especially for his mentorship the great opportunity given to him by in construction projects’, with special skills and his efforts in building us as the management team in the Engineer- reference to road projects he has been young stars in the engineering section,” ing Directorate. -Nhlakanipho Chamane RTI VETERAN ABOOBAKER RETIRES ly or unintentionally but all I was aiming for was to do my work to the best and be proud of what I did. I will definitely miss the working relationship with all my col- leagues in both the RTI Stations. I would like to thank my wife and my daughter who stood by me during my difficult mo- ments whilst I was with RTI,” expressed Aboobaker. RTI Park Rynie excelled from year to year and had great successes with the then Road side Courts. In 2013 they entered for the National RTMC awards and man- aged to scoop four out of five awards for RTI Park Rynie and Aboobaker as the manager took the award of BEST TRAF- FIC OFFICER OF THE YEAR Nationally. In 2015 a provincial award function was held by the MEC for Transport, Commu- nity Safety and Liaison in Durban and again Aboobaker took the award for BEST TRAFFIC OFFICER OF THE YEAR in the province. He was requested to move to RTI Win- klespruit in November 2017 as Chief Pro- vincial Inspector/Station Commander Chief Provincial Inspector Aboobaker where he has been stationed until now, as he retires. The KZN Department of Transport’s ership Certificate, Traffic Personnel Man- RTI veteran retires after 34 years and 2 agement Certificate and an Advanced “I would also like to thank Mr du Plessis months of excellent service to the com- Management Development Programme Commander Training and Advice, for all munities he served. Aboobaker (62) who Certificate. his support, Mr SS Nxumalo then Region- is known as a man of principle and order al Commander Durban Region and now In 2003, with the introduction of the retires after having worked in several as Chief Director, and Mr (Siboniso) Mb- new licence cards, Aboobaker took over stations and contributing significantly to hele Regional Director, Durban Region Mkondeni RTI in Pietermaritzburg. That their successes. for all their positive support they gave same year the station won a silver award me during my stay here. Aboobaker started his career as a Provin- at the Premier’s Service Excellence “A special thank you to Mr TA Mthembu cial Inspector at Stanger RTI in 1985. In Awards. The following year (2004) he Regional Commander, Durban region for January 1986 he received his Traffic Of- was promoted to Chief Provincial Inspec- his positive support and assistance dur- ficers Diploma. In 1988 he was promot- tor and served as Station Commander at ing my difficult times over the past two ed to Senior Provincial Inspector, and RTI Park Rynie. His station again won a in October 1991 was transferred to RTI years. In all fairness I also want to say silver award for Premier’s Service Excel- thanks to the admin staff of both RTI sta- Pietermaritzburg where he continued to lence Awards consecutively in 2005 and work as a Senior Provincial Inspector. He tions for their unmeasurable support. 2006. In 2007, RTI Park Rynie scooped was again promoted in November 1995 the illustrious gold award for RTI Durban “In closing I would like to say to all my to Principal Provincial Inspector at RTI colleagues please be safe and continue Region. Pietermaritzburg. with the excellent work of saving lives, “I would like to say that I have worked the trend and the legacy which I have He served as Acting Station Commander well and assisted the officers wherever left behind and to keep the flag of RTI of in the year 2001 at Park Rynie, New- I could within the ambits of protocols, both stations flying high as you all have castle, Midway and Pietermaritzburg policy and procedure of the Department always done during my time as Station RTI stations where he made a positive of Transport both at RTI Park Rynie and Commander,” said Aboobaker. – Mabuyi contribution. Credentials to his name RTI Winklespruit. Mkarry include, among others, the Junior Man- agement Course Certificate, Police Lead- “I apologise if I hurt anybody intentional- FAREWELL TO LEARNERS REPRESENTING KZN IN THE NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY DEBATE The Kwazulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison Bheki Ntuli met to bid farewell to a group of learners at King Shaka International Airport in Durban, who are representing the province in the National Schools Road Safety Debate competition currently underway at Misty Hills Conference Centre in the Gauteng Province. The National Road Safety Debates took place on the 24th and the 25th of September followed by the Participatory Education Techniques (PET) on the 26th and the 27th of September 2019. Under the PET Competition, learners identify road problems in their communities and design a problem-solution models. This road safety debates project was rolled out in 2009 by the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) to provide a platform to educate high school learners (Grade 10 and Grade 11) on road safety issues. This project has three categories: Rural; Urban and Special needs. The first of round of the competition saw KwaZulu-Natal province going against the Gauteng province under the rural category, while on the urban category KwaZulu-Natal competed against the Limpopo province. The Schools representing the province are Tugela High, Pietermaritzburg Girls High, Kenmont Special school, Intuthuko Special School, Udumo High School and Amahlubi High School.- PHOTOS: Mbuyiselo Ndlovu RAF goes ON MAJOR service delivery DRIVE IN Estcourt The Road Accident Fund (RAF) award ecute its duties with further dedication winning service excellence will be taken and fortitude, while pursuing excellence up a further notch during its major ser- across the business.
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