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SANRAL Is Building Bridges with Communities, Providing Skills Training and Boosting Local Smmes in the Free State 2020 FREEFREE STATESTATE Produced by SANRAL SANRAL is building bridges with communities, providing skills training and boosting local SMMEs in the Free State. Image: Bridge over the Caledon River www.sanral.co.za @sanral_za @sanralza @sanral_za SANRAL SANRAL Corporate Message from the MEC he year 2020 saw the country go on lockdown, when national road and on the local street network at night, which everything came to a complete stop as a result of posed a threat to the safety of motorists and the truck Tthe coronavirus. However, we fought this pandemic drivers themselves. The upgrades entail mostly widening and united as a country and showed our resilience. As you read realignment of the existing road, and fundamentally improve this publication, we are now on lockdown level 1 and are safety aspects. functioning again, albeit not fully – but we will get there. Several sections of SANRAL’s national roads in Free State are Our province is known as South Africa’s breadbasket, as its agricultural industry is thriving and its farms produce over undergoing upgrades and maintenance. This year SANRAL 70% of the country’s grain. A good road infrastructure is awarded seven different tenders to consulting engineers for critical in getting agricultural produce across the country. design, tender documentation and supervision. These are SANRAL has been spearheading construction of the road in Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Fezile Dabi District network in the Free State. Municipality, Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality, I had a pleasure recently to accompany the Minister of Xhariep District Municipality and Mangaung Metropolitan Transport, Honourable Fikile Mbalula to the oversight of Municipality. Consistent with various engagements I the N6 project. He was impressed with SANRAL’s excellent have had with SANRAL, I am pleased that the mentioned service delivery in the construction sector. SANRAL has a municipalities are going to directly benefit from these primary mandate to finance, improve, manage, and maintain projects. It will break down monopolies in supply chains and South Africa’s expanding national road network. The more ensure the broad-based participation of black South Africans than 22 000km road network is the country’s single biggest on SANRAL projects. public asset, and is critical to South Africa’s future economic and social trajectory. Lastly, I would like to urge all road users to be safe on the The N6 carries many long-distance freight vehicles. Towns roads as we approach the festive season. If you are travelling like Ventersburg, Winburg and Smithfield remain attractive long distances please take a break every two hours as places for long-distance truck drivers to stop. In the past, fatigue has been one of the contributors to road crashes. MALAMBULE SAMUEL MASHININI many heavy vehicles used to park informally along the Stay alert, stay alive! MEC: Police, Roads and Transport Message from the CEO s we put together this publication, the entire the SMMEs involved in that construction. country is on lockdown level 1. More activities We look at the new technology at Senekal Traffic are now permitted and rules around international A Control Centre. SANRAL has established such centres travel have been relaxed. This is good news. at strategic locations along national roads or nearby The impact of COVID-19 to the economy of South Africa provincial roads. Overloaded heavy vehicles cause has been dire and the lives of fellow citizens have been premature damage to SANRAL’s assets and pose a safety disrupted. But, to use a cliché, there is light at the end of risk to road users. We also look at the work done by the tunnel. SANRAL in the Free State, which borders more provinces of South Africa than any other province. As a custodian of the national road network, SANRAL has made certain that essential movement on the As a state-owned entity SANRAL will continue to country’s national roads remains optimal to ensure support and work with government to curb the spread ongoing functioning of the country’s economy throughout of COVID-19. I am certain that everyone wants to get the lockdown and beyond. I would like to pay tribute to all country working again and to get back to some normality. our essential workers who made this possible – from As we go into the Festive Season, we must remember cashiers in toll booths to routine road maintenance to obey the rules of the road at all times. This time of (RRM) workers who woke up every morning to ensure our the year is often spent with family and loved ones, let us roads are in good condition. enjoy this time with them and welcome what the New In this edition of Hello Free State, we focus on RRM in Year is set to bring. the province and the role it plays in the development of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). SANRAL will continuously review and improve the existing Until next time, take care! RRM contract model to maximise the broad-based participation of black and local entities and communities. SKHUMBUZO MACOZOMA Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula recently visited Chief Executive Officer Smithfield to see progress on the N6 upgrade and meet SANRAL 2 BUILDING SOUTH AFRICA THROUGH BETTER ROADS Upgraded Senekal Traffic Control Centre yields positive results he Senekal Traffic Control Centre has been upgraded to a more technologically advanced weighbridge. The system has weigh-in- Tmotion equipment installed on either side of the approach to the facility, which assists the traffic officer to identify potentially overloaded vehicles and direct these to the Traffic Control Centre. The Senekal Traffic Control Centre is a law enforcement facility that performs vehicle fitness checks in addition to the weighbridge and speed enforcement. SANRAL’s role is to operate and maintain the centre by appointing a contractor. The Free State Traffic Department performs all the road traffic law enforcement duties. This mutually beneficial partnership contributes to improving the safety of the road user. The system was installed to curb overloading of trucks, which also contributes to maintaining road safety. Driver behaviour changes when road traffic law enforcement is present, with a resultant decrease in overloading. This trend can be seen over a year or two. Traffic patterns change due to commodity demands, and generally truck owners are not pleased at being forced to reduce their loads, resulting in a lesser payload. However, those that transgress will be fined. Habitual offenders change their drivers continuously and mainly employ drivers from neighbouring countries. HELLO FREE STATE 2020 3 Minister Mbalula excited about N6 upgrade he National Road (N6) between Smithfield and Rouxville in the Free “Most of the road is being constructed in half-widths, where the traffic is State is a popular route that has in the past posed significant road safety moved onto a widened shoulder on the one side of the road while work Tchallenges. In response to these challenges, SANRAL appointed WBHO continues on the other side,” explained SANRAL Eastern Region Project to upgrade this 34km stretch of road. Manager Jason Lowe. In accordance with SANRAL’s transformation objectives, the labour force for the He further explained that the main bridge on the route is over the Caledon upgrading was locally sourced from Xhariep District Municipality. To date the River, which was an extremely narrow bridge without shoulders. This has been project has generated 390 jobs to the value of R28 073 197, given economic widened on both sides to accommodate the new road width. Closer to the opportunities to 30 sub-contractors to the value of R88 501 454, and provided Rouxville side, the smaller bridge over the Eldorado River was demolished and training to all members of the local labour force. rebuilt to larger dimensions. Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula visited the upgrade site and lauded the “Both Rouxville and Smithfield have historic town planning challenges, where agency for its engineering excellence and empowering the community. the majority of the population has been positioned on the opposite side of the “I am highly pleased to see that the people of this district are in fact the ones road to the town’s amenities, such as schools and shops. As a result, numerous who benefitted from this project. Empowerment is for the locals, and those who pedestrians cross the N6 daily. In prioritising road safety for all road users, but have been empowered must be supported to grow and develop. Then they can particularly pedestrians in this case, we are reducing the speed limit, building take on bigger opportunities and create work for others to benefit from.” sidewalks on both sides of the road, creating safe crossing points and installing streetlights. These measures will ensure that motorists are more aware of The upgrade entails widening and partial vertical realignment of the existing pedestrians and will enforce reduced travelling speeds,” said SANRAL’s Eastern road, fundamentally improving safety aspects. One of the key results of the Region Regional Manager Dumisani Nkabinde. vertical realignment will be fewer blind rises on the route and a longer field of vision for motorists. It will also reduce the number of climbing lanes necessary While the project is not yet complete, the minister was pleased with to accommodate overtaking of slower traffic. The road is also being widened to progress and the scope for stakeholders to access economic development 12.4 metres, which includes a generous shoulder on each side. opportunities. 4 BUILDING SOUTH AFRICA THROUGH BETTER ROADS A new way of engaging with stakeholders and communities ver the years SANRAL has enjoyed healthy relations A series of roundtable engagements and information with authorities in the Free State and carries out sessions were held to mitigate against not being able to host Oseveral stakeholder-related joint activities.
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