A musician from the Afrikaans group DJ Ossewa was killed and three of his band mates injured in a car accident near Brits, North West police said on Sunday.
Police spokesperson Aafje Botma said that a case of culpable homicide was being investigated after the accident happened on the N4 near Brits on Sunday morning.
She said [...]

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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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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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PROJECT : ARRIVE ALIVE
Intervarsity between North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) and University of the Free State
Weekend of 6-8 August 2010
Our aim with this project is to ensure sober students arriving in Bloemfontein – thereby reducing the number of drivers under the influence of alcohol during Intervarsity. The hope is that we will directly reduce the [...]

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SA Football Association vice president Shoes Mazibuko and former CEO Danny Jordaan have discovered monitoring devices fitted to their cars, the SABC reported on Tuesday.
The two allegedly made the discovery earlier this month.
SAFA president Kirsten Nemathandani said this came as a surprise to him because only the association’s fleet should be monitored for administration purposes.
“But [...]

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The Gauteng Department of Community Safety has published the gazette reflecting the dates for the substitution of the GP number plates again. It was published in Provincial Gazette No 137 of 7 July 2010, notice number 1921.
The gazette has not been implemented yet, but the schedule of when the new numbers must be displayed, is [...]

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Crucial evidence in soccer legend Doctor Khumalo’s drunken driving case has gone missing - and his blood samples may have been tampered with, reports The Sowetan.
Khumalo’s lawyer, Johan Pretorius, told the Roodepoort magistrate’s court on Tuesday that a form that should contain Khumalo’s signature, that of the doctor who examined him and Metro police officer [...]

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The Arrive Alive Website received this interesting request pertaining to the Rules of the Road:
“I hope you can help, I have been searching the web without success.
Regarding an uncontrolled intersection in a residential municipal area, that is an intersection with no stop, yield or other traffic sign, is there any rule for drivers?
I understand that [...]

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According to research, South Africa has one of the highest per capita alcohol consumption rates in the world, and it is estimated that up to 30% of general hospital admissions in South Africa are directly or indirectly related to alcohol use. Statistics show that alcohol is a leading contributor to road accidents, and more and [...]

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