Fourteen veld fires were raging in the Free State on Thursday, the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries said.
“Five of then are rather big in size,” said departmental spokesperson Malcolm Procter.
The larger fires were raging near Sasolburg, along the N1 between Kroonstad and Sasolburg, between Paul Roux and Bethlehem, north of Kestell and another [...]
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Two of the biggest problems currently in South Africa are unemployment (that is still increasing due to the aftereffect of the recession) and road accidents. Five entrepreneurs from Bloemfontein put heads together and Afsim was born.
Afsim specialises in safe and affordable driver training. This is done with simulators. Afsim focuses on the gap between no [...]
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A man has been killed and two other critically injured after a delivery van and a bakkie collided on the M41 near Umhlanga.
ER24 paramedics on the scene explained that the vehicles came to rest almost 50 meters apart after the collision, making it difficult to determine which vehicle was travelling in which direction.
The driver’s [...]
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We have recently seen several media reports about vehicle fire. Many of these are vehicles that have not been well maintained, others caught fire in horrific crashes – and some caught fire from some engine malfunction.
Few vehicle owners pay much attention to these fires – but will confirm that entrapment in a burning vehicle remains [...]
THE CONCEPT
ER24’s concept was developed by Medi-Clinic Corporation and Afrox Healthcare in response to market
conditions.
THE COMPANIES
Initially there was Emergency Room Company with Medi-Clinic Corporation and Afrox Healthcare each owning 50 percent. Emergency Room 24 was then established with Emergency Room Company owning 66 percent and Medical Rescue International (MRI) owning a 33 percent share.
Emergency Room [...]
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The Golden Hour is under threat as paramedics cannot enter hospitals in certain areas to obtain life-saving emergency medical treatment. In the past few years, paramedics are trying to stress the importance of the Golden Hour where a patient needs to be seen by a specialist within 60 minutes from his or her injury.
Since [...]
The Arrive Alive website received this request to clarify a traffic sign that a foreign visitor has come across.
“The picture of the sign was taken on the road between Knysna and Cape Town going up a long hill.
We “assumed” that it meant that there was a minimum speed of 80kph in the inner or centre [...]
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In the newspapers today we find stories of raging veldt fires and damage caused by these fires in the Eastern Free State. These fires are often caused unintentionally by road users throwing cigarettes from their vehicle. The next truck passing by causes a bust of wind that could easily ignite a small fire with devastating [...]
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The government may keep postponing the implementation of the demerit system, but the reality is that motorists are one day going to have to accept this system. Once the demerit system has been implemented, you can expect things to change drastically with traffic law enforcement. First, traffic fine dodgers will have nowhere to hide, and [...]
“You can’t renew your car’s licence because you are deceased.”
This is the message a Stellenbosch businessman received when he recently tried to renew one of his cars’ licences.
Adriaan van Niekerk, former MP from the Northern Cape, now has to fill in a stack of forms, have fingerprints taken, make official statements and have letters proving [...]
