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Road Safety Programme
KZN YOURS (Youth in Road Safety)
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- The target audience is pedestrians 3 to 14 years of age.
- The activities include Child in Traffic, Scholar Patrol and Integration
into the school curriculum.
- The duration is January to November.
- The theme is Pedestrians as Road users.
- Achievements or outcomes are trained 124 instructors, 69689 learners, and
961 educators.
- Sponsorship were received from P4 Radio.
- Competition at Primary Schools – Road Shows.
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- The target audience is Secondary School Pupils aged 14 to 18 years.
- Activities include identifying and finding solutions to a road safety
problem in and around the school environment.
- The duration is January to November.
- The theme is Pedestrians enforcement engineering aspects.
- Achievements or outcomes include Remedial measures having been undertaken
to some of the problems identified by the scholars. Areas such as Madadeni,
Verulam and Nongoma were targeted.
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- The target audience is secondary school pupils and youth out of school and
clubs.
- The activities include Leadership camps where drama, poetry and art are
done.
- The duration is January to October.
- The theme is Alcohol, Pedestrians and Seat belts.
- The achievements or outcomes are youth becoming Road safety Activists or
ambassadors.
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- The target audience is spectators, sports personalities and the youth aged
14 to 17 years.
- Activities include attending soccer and netball matches and awareness at
big sporting events.
- The duration is all year round.
- The themes are Alcohol, Overloading, Pedestrian and Passenger behaviour.
- The achievements or outcomes include Bayana Bayana incorporating the
Asiphephe Logo at all matches.
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- The target audience is the adult pedestrian community, road safety
councils in both urban and rural areas.
- Activities include the pedestrian management plan, outdoor advertising,
and train the trainer instructors course.
- The duration is all year round.
- The theme is Alcohol and walking pedestrian behaviour.
- The achievements or outcomes include having trained 108 community members
to become instructors by going to hospitals, clinics and industry.
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- The target audience is the congregation at churches and ministers of
christian faith.
- The activities include workshops for priests, Sunday school teachers and
elders of the churches.
- The duration is ongoing with more focus during the Easter festive period.
- The theme is Pedestrian and passenger behaviour.
- The achievements or outcomes include covering other religious groups and
having been adopted by the Ministers office.
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- The target audience includes holiday makers coming to the province and
community road safety councils in both the urban and rural areas.
- The activities include rest stops on national and alternate routes,
alcohol awareness, long distance taxi / tour bus awareness, the booze bus
operations and AIDS and transport.
- The duration includes all long weekends, Easter and the summer holidays.
- The themes are Alcohol, Speed, Fatigue, Seat belts, Vehicle fitness and
Overloading.
- The achievements or outcomes include public using the rest stops,
sponsorships from Engen Petroleum, AIDS clinics at taxi ranks and joint
operations with N3Tc/South African National Roads Agency.
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- The target audience is rural road transport forums and community road safety
councils in both urban and rural areas.
- The activities include public awareness campaigns at taxi ranks and
shopping centres, Youth Day, National Women’s Day, women for road traffic
safety, World AIDS Day and Disability Day.
- The duration is public holidays.
- The themes are Pedestrian and Passenger Rights , Alcohol and Overloading.
- The achievements or outcomes include communities taking ownership of road
safety programmes.
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- The target audience is light and heavy vehicle industries.
- The activities include driver of the year, computerized drivers licences,
code of conduct for driving schools and school driver education programs.
- The theme is Defensive Driving and the K53 method of instruction.
- The achievements or outcomes include the code of conduct for driving
schools being completed and accepted by the industry.
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Background
In May 2003 the former Minister of Transport called for a joint
meeting with various churches, faiths and religious leaders. This was
attended by more than 1 500 people. The representatives included
Christians, Jews, Shembe, Hindu, Buddhists etc. This led to the launch of
the church project in four regions i.e. Durban, Pietermaritzburg,
Ladysmith and Empangeni. However all groups were not included and
therefore the Department felt it was pertinent to review this partnership.
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Aim
The aim of this campaign is to establish and maintain the culture of road
safety and ensure that road safety becomes everybody’s responsibility.
This campaign will ensure that the entire religious community of KwaZulu-Natal
participates actively in the struggle against road accidents.
Building a Culture of Road Safety
The goal of saving lives through reduced road collisions lends itself
substantially to the KZN Department of Transport’s strategic vision of
improving the quality of life of our people as well as ensuring economic
prosperity for the Province.
The primary goal of the Road Safety Directorate is to save lives.
However this task cannot be managed by one department alone. The
Department relies on partnerships with stakeholders that can assist with
building a culture of road safety.
Our commitment to end the carnage on our roads extends to ensuring that
the pillars of civil society join with us in our fight against road
related crime. The Department is focusing on partnerships with religious
leaders within KZN to ensure that the culture of road safety truly becomes
everyone’s business.
It is the Department’s intention to continue to consolidate our
relationship with civil society institutions and, in particular, to focus
on securing the support of KwaZulu-Natal’s churches and religious
leaders. We believe that these partnerships will have an impact in
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KZN YOURS (Youth in Road Safety) was launched in 2016 after the United Nations (UN) endorsed the formation of a youth structure to deal with road traffic injuries among young people. Youth between 15 and 29 years of age were identified as the most affected globally by road fatalities.
A positive impact is noted in this highly interactive edutainment road safety programme where youth can talk to each other in a language they understand.
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