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Transport Minister Barbara Creecy

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy (Right) and Deputy Minister Mkhuleko Hlengwa (Centre) at the launch of South Africa’s 2026 October Transport Month campaign at the UNISA School of Business Leadership in Midrand, Gauteng. Photo: DoT

Creecy Launches Transport Month as Road Deaths Keep Pressure on Government

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy will on Thursday officially launch South Africa’s 2026 October Transport Month…

Festive Road Deaths Fall to Five-Year Low, but Creecy Warns Carnage Continues

South Africa recorded its lowest festive-season road crashes in five years, with early data showing…

Bus Crash: Limpopo Government Concludes First Phase of Repatriation of 29 Zimbabwean Nationals

The Limpopo Provincial Government has completed the first phase of repatriating 29 Zimbabwean nationals who…

A Journey Home That Ended in Tragedy: 42 Dead in Limpopo Bus Crash as South Africa Grapples With Rising Road Deaths

What was meant to be a hopeful journey home for dozens of travellers from Johannesburg…

Soweto E-Hailing–Taxi War Boils Over: One Dead, Residents Demand Taxi Industry’s Removal

A bloody flare-up in the long-running conflict between taxi and e-hailing drivers has left one man dead, a taxi torched, and Soweto residents openly demanding that the taxi industry be driven out of their community. By Thursday midday, tensions remained dangerously high after a Toyota Quantum taxi was set alight, hours after a 35-year-old e-hailing driver was gunned down outside Maponya Mall on Wednesday night. His attackers set his car ablaze before fleeing. Relatives described him as a “dedicated breadwinner…

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