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News and Achievements Bulletin
Awesome AssessorsOn Friday, Irene James dashed through (without speeding!) to Pietermaritzburg to spend a while with some of her favourite learners – the Traffic Officer Facilitators. She needed to check on their portfolios of assessment to determine the individuals’ readiness to be licensed as practicing assessors. Not only have they produced superb portfolios (led, as usual from the front by the management team), but they have demonstrated superb integration of unit standards for the assessment process. They will now each demonstrate their competencies to perform an assessment.
We are very proud of you, boys! (oops - and girl, - sorry Michal!). Keep up the good work. Zero Tolerance from Simply the Best!In this festive season, most of us become more aware of the traffic officers as they increase their visible policing role on our public roads to serve as a deterrent to hooligans and road hogs. In the city of Pietermaritzburg (known as "sleepy hollow" in KZN), there is a very special group of Traffic Officers. They form the core staff of the KZN Traffic Training College and are responsible for ensuring that new batches of Traffic Officers for the province are well trained every year to perform duties on our roads. The Traffic officers are not only expert trainers, but several of them are regarded as "fundis" in specialised areas of trafficking such as accident reconstruction, and vehicle examination, and are whisked off in helicopters to all parts of the country at all times of the night and day to assist with investigations following traffic accidents. Despite this busy schedule, this team of dedicated people recently decided that they were going to become the very best College for traffic officer training in South Africa and seek accreditation for their organisation. Their first step was to train and be assessed as outcomes based facilitators and assessors of learning. They not only gave up their weekends to undergo the training and met several times after hours to compile their portfolios of evidence, but they managed to submit their evidence of competence in a record time! (All under the watchful eye (and whip?) of their Chief, Reon du Plessis, who led the pack by example from the front.). DIONYSUS was chosen as their training provider, and was invited to the Traffic officers Diploma Course Graduation Ceremony at Fernhill Hotel last night. What a grand occasion! 20 superb traffic officers received their diplomas from the KwaZulu-Natal Traffic Training college and the Guest of honour, Dr K Mbanjwa, who is the head of Transport in KZN delivered the key note address. He emphasized the importance of pedestrian education in order to reduce the number of road deaths in our province, as well as touching on issues such as ethics and honesty amongst traffic officers, and the importance of transformation in the traffic department through the inclusion of many more female traffic officers. He also put the record straight regarding the festive season fatality comparisons between provinces over this busy season, quite rightly stating that you cannot compare the 4000 vehicles an hour and the associated fatality rate in KZN to the 200 vehicles an hour in the Free State and its associated fatality rate. One has to consider the "big picture" and report accordingly, comparing apples with apples. The ceremony was followed by a Dinner-Dance and a fantastic time was had by all! During the ceremony, Irene James, Director of Dionysus presented the College with a framed certificate, acknowledging their competence as Facilitators and Assessors. The KwaZulu-Natal Traffic Training College is determined to keep their spot as the number one traffic training college in the country, and are putting all the measures in place to ensure that they remain, in the words of the college graduates, "simply the best". We are so proud to be associated with the College!
KZN Traffic Training College Management members with John Schnell and Irene James – Mike Joubert (Left), Reon Du Plessis (Middle), Cyril Knoesen (Right) and not available was Douglas Ntombela
Our Pride and JoyOne of Dionysus' most precious interventions has been to ensure that the training team from the KZN Traffic Training College in Pietermaritzburg is well up to speed on the requirements for outcomes-based facilitation and assessment. It was with (almost regret), but great pride of achievement that Dionysus' Director, Irene James, completed the final licensing of her beloved Boys - and sorry Michal - girl, this week as they earned their stripes to assess. Irene remarked I have never before come across such dedication, and determination to see a task through. This team was remarkable. I am already suffering from withdrawal symptoms as I leave them now to get on with the job of being the best team of traffic training facilitators and assessors in the country. Led by their management team, Reon du Plessis, Mike Joubert, Douglas Ntombela and Cyril Knoesen (pictured below) - who were the first to receive their licenses to assess, - every single instructor was deemed 100% competent this week, and presented with their certificates of competency from Dionysus. Pictured at bottom is the rest of the College's team of experts - (seated left to right) - Dougie Eaglestone, Michal Chetty, Hemdav Kesar and standing (left to right) Sanjeeth Sewlall, Dean Gobey, Carl Zimmermann, and Roshan Singh. Keith Hogg, who is an expert in traffic accident reconstruction, was called out and did not make it back in time for the photo.
PromotionsOur congratulations to Senjeeth Sewlall who has been promoted to Chief Provincial Inspector (Station Commander) Ixopo.
ResignationsMs Debbie Johnston has resigned from the Department and moved on to Port Elizabeth. Our goodbye's to to her.
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