Minister of Transport Blade Nzimande during a press briefing on the scrapping of Taxi's, 26 April 2019, GCIS Pretoria. Picture: Jacques Nelles
The Democratic Alliance has raised questions about the purported drop in Easter weekend road accident fatalities announced by Transport Minister Blade Nzimande this week, and called on him to “stop lying to South Africans about your Easter road safety campaign”. He said Nzimande had made it crystal clear that the statistics covered the period of April 18 to 22, 2019. These five days were traditionally defined as Easter statistics in the narrow sense. “However, when I look at your statements made on the Easter period last year you indicated that the 2018 period would be defined different, namely from 29 March 2018 to 9 April 2018, making the 2018 Easter period 11 days.
“I would be most interested in obtaining the daily statistics per province for this year. I wouldn’t be surprised that after comparing the 2018 and 2019 Easter days as narrowly defined, we find that we continue to slide or improve only marginally.
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