The recruitment of 600 people across local district and provincial levels to serve in road safety campaigns for the next five years is one of the interventions mooted by KwaZulu-Natal MEC of transport and infrastructure Siboniso Duma to counter road fatalities.
Speaking in Durban on Monday after three accidents claimed the lives of 21 people on Saturday, Duma announced a raft of measures including the return to Alufakwa a campaign to clamp down on lawbreakers.
In the first accident at about 10am on Saturday, six MK party members travelling from Estcourt to former president Jacob Zumas homestead in Nkandla died when the taxi in which they were travelling rolled down an embankment and caught alight.
Ten other passengers were taken to hospital.
In another accident, on the R622 between Greytown and Mooi River, 12 people were killed, including a grade 8 pupil from Michaelhouse school, Garth Finnermore, whose parents, also died in the crash. His brother, Harry, 12, is fighting for his life in the Hilton Life hospital
