At Euphoria today, MEC for Transport and Community Safety Ms. Nakedi Kekana officially opened her inaugural Strategic Planning Session as MEC, setting a clear tone: from compliance to impact.
Key takeaways from her address:
On Governance: A clean audit must be protected, but it is not the destination. The people don’t feel our audit opinion, they feel our services.
On GBVF: The fight against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide must go beyond campaigns. She demanded practical, measurable interventions focused on prevention, victim support and stronger collaboration with SAPS, municipalities and civil society.
On Policing: Concerned about the 5 consistently poorest-performing police stations, she called for evidence-based, station-specific interventions to change their circumstances, not just monitor them.
On Public Transport: Public transport is an economic enabler. She called for decisive action on taxi conflicts through early-warning systems, stronger engagement with SANTACO and associations, and root-cause resolution before violence erupts.
On Road Safety:*Targeting a 5% reduction in road fatalities. This requires technology, data, education and the urgent roll-out of the 24/7 shift for traffic officers – because roads are not only dangerous during office hours.
Her charge: Plan with purpose. Implement with urgency. Account with integrity. Serve with distinction.
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