Kingsley Holgate and his wife, Gill, have set off for the All Afrika Expedition that will take them to the last five countries in Africa that they have yet to explore. Kingsley Holgate, Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, author, humanitarian and modern-day adventurer, is one of South Africa’s best-known adventurers. The All Afrika Expedition [...]
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Mr. Raymond Ngomane from the Mpumalanga Province is the 2010 Winner of the brandhouse/ RTMC Number One Taxi Driver Campaign. Brandhouse together with the Road Traffic Management Corporation and Toyota SA announced this in Soweto at a prestigious gala dinner on Thursday, 11th November 2010. Brandhouse, the RTMC, Toyota as well as Government VIPs, stakeholders, [...]
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There are several aspects of vehicle maintenance requiring the attention of road users before they embark on a journey. One of these aspects most often neglected, is the safety of your windscreen. On the Arrive Alive road safety website we find a section on Windscreen Safety. We would like to quote from this section and [...]
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Gabriel shock absorbers and Warn winches in partnership with United Against Malaria (UAM), explorer Kingsley Holgate, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) SA and a number of sponsors have launched an expedition to Central African Republic (CAR) to deliver 2000 malaria nets and rescue four chimps in distress. There are 1-million malaria deaths each year in [...]
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The national transport ministry announced at the weekend that it will begin the rollout of its festive season road safety plan in coming weeks. According to the Road traffic Management Corporation, more than 13,000 people were killed on South African roads last year. The majority of the fatalities occurred during the festive season. The department’s [...]
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The accident between a bus and a truck could have been far worse, but fortunately, only two people sustained very minor injuries only. It is unclear as to how the accident happened, but an articulated truck, carrying two closed containers and a trailer, collided head on into the bus, causing the truck to overturn and [...]
Herewith find the statement of the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, for this year’s World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Reference in the statement is made to the first-ever Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The UN Secretary-General notes “I call on Member States, international agencies, civil society organizations, businesses and community leaders [...]
A 21 year old female driver is fighting for her life in a Johannesburg hospital after a side impact accident on the Zuurfontein road at the R 25 Bridge in Kempton Park this morning just before 07h00. Details to the cause of the accident will remain a subject for police investigation. When paramedics and the [...]
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A twenty three old male has had a narrow escape after crashing his light motor vehicle into a tree on Manning Road, Glenwood, this morning. ER24 paramedics and other emergency personnel arrived on the scene and found the car lying on its roof, with members of the public gathering around the vehicle, trying to assist [...]
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A twenty five year old woman is in a serious condition after being knocked down by a bakkie on Underwood Road, just outside Pinetown this morning. ER24 paramedics rushed to the scene and found the woman lying on the pavement, with the bakkie stationary just a few meters away from the scene. Paramedics assessed the [...]
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