A prayer for safer roads and communities
Prayer will be held in identified spots on the N4 toll Road between Matsulu and Mbombela.
Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison in partnership with Matsulu Fellowship Ministries and Moral Regeneration Movement will conduct a prayer for road crashes and crime in the province this week.
The prayer session is an initiative by the Matsulu Fellowship Ministries after realizing that the several initiatives have been put in place in order to curb road crashes but the crashes are still happening.
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The department has implemented numerous law enforcement initiatives and road safety education programmes but the number of road crashes continues to escalate.
On Friday 26 October 2018, 15 people perished when a crash occurred on N4 toll road near Matsulu when a minibus collided with a truck and a sedan.
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It was alleged at the time that poor decision making on the part of the sedan driver may have played a hand in this tragic crash.
Another head on collision that occurred between a midi-bus taxi and an articulated truck led to the death of 11 people on R575 Road near Middelburg in December last year.
The victims were residents of Mozambique and they were reportedly travelling from Mozambique to Johannesburg at the time of the crash.
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In January this year seven lives were lost in a road crash that involved a minibus taxi and a truck on the road between Kanyamazane and Mbombela.
The taxi was travelling from Matsulu to Mbombela at the time of the crash.
Mpumalanga Community Safety, Security and Liaison MEC Pat Ngomane is expected to attend the prayer session along with other members of the Executive Council (MECs), Ehlanzeni Moral Regeneration Movement, City of Mbombela and local communities.
The Prayer will take place as follows:
Date: Friday, 15 March 2019
Venue: Identified prayer points on the N4 toll Road between Matsulu and Mbombela
Time: 07h00
Second Session
Date: 15 March 2019
Venue: Matsulu Community Hall
Time: 10h00
