Your driving habits say a lot about you
This will also take many dangerous and reckless drivers off our roads.
So, you’ve been driving a motor vehicle for as long as you can remember, yet you still don’t know what to do when you reach a traffic circle, when you get to a four-way intersection, or when the traffic lights are not working.
Well, all I can say to you, about you, is that you either “bought” your driver’s licence, or your driving school tutor made you pay a little extra for your driving lessons so he or she could bribe an instructor at your local testing station for you to be able to pass your driving test. Worse still, you simply don’t have a driver’s licence and therefore you are not qualified to drive a motor vehicle on a public road.
The fact of the matter is, if you happen to fall into any of the above-mentioned categories and yet you still drive every day, then you also belong in the category of those who maim or kill thousands of fellow drivers and pedestrians on our country’s roads each year.
But according to a statement issued by Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters, such drivers could soon find themselves branded offenders worse than ordinary criminals. The minister wants to see those who are responsible for the mayhem on our roads, especially those who drive under the influence of alcohol, penalised heavily for their irresponsible misadventures and for turning the country’s roads into “killing fields”.
What should scare you even more is that Minister Peters has sought to reclassify drunk driving as a schedule five offence, the same category as rape and murder. Since reckless and negligent driving are among the primary causes of death on our roads, the minister has also suggested that these two offences should see offenders being re-tested. This will put them through the very same process they might have bribed their way out of previously.
Of course, this will also take many dangerous and reckless drivers off our roads.
Every responsible driver should applaud the Minister of Transport for her efforts to rid our roads of menaces that have led to an estimated 1 750 people killed on our roads this past festive season. And with the long Easter Weekend soon upon us, there’s no doubt these figures could escalate unless we all stand together behind the minister in her bid to clear up the mess on our country’s roads.
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Hamba kahle, Sis Thandi – we will all miss you
The South African music world lost an icon of note in Thandi Klaasen.
Her death was not unexpected. She had been ill for quite some time since being diagnosed with cancer.
As Winnie Mandela once noted, the death of those closer to us always reminds us of our own imminent end.
But I find it amazing, repugnant and strange that Sis Thandi – despite her contributions to the country’s arts – has suddenly become more popular in death than she was when she was alive.
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Human trafficking is real
Unless immigration authorities act decisively against those who trade in human lives, we could see an escalation in all sorts of criminal and other antisocial behaviour.
