More fights against prisons' EE plan

Five more Western Cape correctional services officials are challenging the department's employment equity plan.

• Focus on victims - prisons minister
• Minister settles out of court - EE
• Western Cape officials challenging EE plan

SA elected ACSA chair

South Africa has been elected as the chair of the African Correctional Services Association, the correctional services department has said.

Marikana miners: Copshops too small

Police stations close to the Lonmin mine at Marikana may be too small to hold the mine workers arrested for violence, the police ministry says.

• Watchdog to probe Marikana brutality claims
• Mthethwa: Police tried to avoid shooting
• Mthethwa receives Marikana report

DA: New transport regulations snuck through

Transport Minister Ben Martins has "snuck through" changes to the National Road Traffic Regulations, bypassing Parliament, the DA claims, but the department has denied this.

• Fraudulent licences must end - minister
• Society needs reliable transport: Martins
• Smoking regulations may be unlawful - LRP

Selebi's release constitutional: ANC

Not releasing terminally ill prisoners would be a serious violation of the Constitution, says ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga.

• Selebi should have been paroled sooner - lawyer
• Selebi release not preferential - official
• Jackie Selebi granted medical parole

Selebi not discharged yet: Parole board

Convicted former police commissioner Jackie Selebi has been granted medical parole, but it is up to his doctors to decide when he will be ready to leave the hospital, an official says.

• Jackie Selebi granted medical parole
• Selebi still getting state pension
• Another Selebi parole bid in pipeline

Durban prison overcrowded

Westville prison in KwaZulu-Natal is overcrowded and houses more than 9 000 offenders while it only has a capacity for only 6 000.

• 43 presidential remission offenders back in jail
• SA has one of highest prison ratios

SA roads calm over Easter

Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele has said he is encouraged that motorists appear to be heeding road safety rules over the busy holiday period.

• Avoid peak hours over Easter
• Travel safely over Easter, Zuma urges
• Easter traffic clampdown planwatch

Ndebele queries RTMC's Deloitte 'clean-up'

The Road Traffic Management Corporation's appointment of auditing firm Deloitte to do a "financial clean-up" was irregular, says the transport minister.

• RTMC to get new CEO soon
• 'Horrific' RTMC mismanagement revealed
• Deloitte to probe e-toll roadbloacks

Finger pointed at tenders for Limpopo woes

Government ministers have pointed to tender irregularities, supply chain management issues, and lack of contract management systems as key reasons for the province's bankruptcy.

• Cabinet intervention 'not political'
• Limpopo situation not so bad - ANC
• Spendthrift Limpopo faces R2bn shortfall

E-tolls not my idea - Ndebele

Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele has distanced himself from the controversial e-tolling on Gauteng’s freeways.

• Sanral faces financial dilemma
• Gauteng tolls move a 'significant victory'
• Gauteng e-tolls delayed

200 motorists held in holiday blitz

More than 200 drivers have been arrested over the past week as December holiday law enforcement operations got underway, the transport department says.

• No booze please, we're the government
• Tutu gets world road safety prize
• Horror crash: Ndebele slams bad drivers

Cape Town insists on toll notice

The City of Cape Town wants Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele to give three months' notice should he change his mind about allowing the SA National Roads Agency to proceed with a toll road project.

• Tolls remain suspended
• Ndebele orders halt to toll road projects
• Cape Town takes toll fight to court

Cosatu demands clarity on e-tolling

Cosatu has asked Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele to shed light on whether the toll road halt included scrapping the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Plan, or whether it only applies to future toll roads.

• Gauteng 'warned' about tolling system
• Gauteng to hear toll petitions in November
• Cabinet appoints toll system task team

Joggers - Ndebele wants murder charges

Murder charges should be brought against a motorist who crashed into six joggers, killing five of them, in Midrand, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele says.

• Five Midrand joggers killed
• Experts warn runners and joggers
• Taxi slams into jogger, 76, killing him

210 pupil transport vehicles taken off the road

A total of 210 unroadworthy pupil transport vehicles have been taken off the road since the start of the month, the national transport department has said.

• E Cape cracks down on pupil transport
• Schoolchildren killed in crash
• No buses for displaced pupils

Govt gets tough on public transport

All buses and minibus taxis will be stopped and checked with immediate effect as accidents have got "out of hand", Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele says.

• Parly: Unmonitored vehicles cause deaths
• Step up road safety, minister urges
• School transport 'turf war' slammed

ANC welcomes Gauteng toll tariffs

While Cabinet's approval of toll tariffs on the Gauteng freeway improvement project infuriated most organisations, the ANC has welcomed Cabinet's "bold" move.

• Cabinet approves Gauteng toll tariffs
• Tolls: Motorists 'reduced to cash cows'
• Tolls: AA warns of disgruntled motorists

11 000 commuters use new Gautrain route

About 11 000 commuters had travelled on the Gautrain's new city-to-city high-speed train route between Johannesburg and Pretoria by midday.

• Pretoria Gautrain takes off
• Report: Taxpayers subsidise Gautrain

Bus driving hours to be reviewed - dept

Driving hours for bus drivers and the requirement for relief drivers on long-distance trips are being reviewed by the transport department.

• 14 tow trucks fail roadworthy test
• Passengers flung out of overturning bus
• Road safety - AA wants new approach

Investors query SA land policy, tenders

Investors voiced concern about land ownership and procurement during a conference to raise funding for transport upgrades, says an official.

• SA reassures foreign investors: report
• Disappointing data fuel investors' gloom
• Eskom concerns foreign investors

Ndebele boasts jobs in roads project

A multi-billion rand road maintenance programme is expected to create 70 000 jobs, says Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele.

• Casual work spurs jobs growth
• Jobs SA's most urgent need: survey
• Ndebele launches R97bn rail upgrade plan

Toll road fat cats

Eighty-five cents out of every R1 profit made from constructing and operating Gauteng’s controversial open road tolling system could land up in the pockets of an Austrian traffic conglomerate.

• Sanral chief defends toll contract
• 'Toll fees will hit commuters'
• Gauteng motorists face 'double tax'

Billions to tackle potholes

Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele says R22.3bn has been set aside over the next three years to plug potholes and create jobs in a roads maintenance project.

• Scientists tackle pothole scourge
• Gauteng potholes to stay - DA
• SA roads in danger of being irreparable