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Rainy weather road report from DOT

Department of Transport spokersperson Unathi Binqose posted the following at 1pm on Tuesday October 22: The adverse weather conditions continue to wreak havoc affecting the flow of traffic in some roads, especially rural roads across the…

EC roads closed as snow, strong winds and disruptive rains cause dangerous driving conditions

THe Herald reports that workers have started removing the rocks and debris from the N2. This after a large section of the road between the John Tallant offramp and Settlers Way approaching Gqeberha from the east had been blocked. The…

Motorists urged to be cautious in heavy rains

The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) has urged road users to be cautious on the roads as floods have affected its road network in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan…

Call for careful driving in wet weather

The Eastern Cape Department of Transport is calling on road users to be extra vigilant on the roads this weekend. This, as the weather forecast for this weekend makes for dangerous driving conditions. The steady rains in some parts of the…

Rock fall on R67 to Fort Beaufort

A rock fall has partially obstructed the R67 from Makhanda to Fort Beaufort, 40km from Makhanda according to Department of Transport spokesperson Unathi Binqose. Binqose urged road users to be extra cautious when approaching mountain…

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula. File picture.Image: MICHAEL PINYANA

‘2.7-million potholes’: Mbalula’s celebrations at reaching a Twitter milestone takes a detour

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula’s celebration at reaching a milestone on Twitter was short-lived after users flooded his comment section with complaints. The avid social media user celebrated hitting 2.7-million followers this week. In…

The picture depicting a sloppy paint job on a long stretch of the N2 highway was posted on Outa CEO Wayne Duvenage’s Twitter page and was retweeted hundreds of times.Image: Wayne Duvenage/Twitter

Skew lines on national highway are temporary, roads agency says

When Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) CEO Wayne Duvenage posted screenshots from a video showing skew traffic lines painted on a road, people responded with a combination of anger and apathy at another government tender apparently…

Roads in Nyumaga village in Centane are so bad that residents and mourners are forced to use a donkey cart to take coffins to local gravesites when it rains.Image: SUPPLIED

Only a donkey cart can transport coffin to grave

DispatchLIVE takes 40 minutes to drive last 15km to remote Eastern Cape village. Roads in an Eastern Cape village are so bad that a funeral parlour has to hire a donkey cart to transport a coffin to the graveyard. In some instances,…

MUD BATH: Zuney Valley dairy farmer Cliffie Biggs points out one of the many bad patches along the busy DR1948 Picture: Eugene Coetzee

Agri EC wins rural roads judgment against EC transport department

Agri EC has won an order in the Grahamstown High Court compelling the Eastern Cape department of transport, safety and liaison to fix dilapidated rural roads. Agri EC had to return to court to get the order which enforces an agreement…

Over 500 arrests and 65‚000 fines issued on country’s roads since start of Easter weekend

Traffic officials have arrested more than 500 motorists and issued more than 65‚ 000 traffic fines since the start of the Easter holidays. “Preliminary statistics reported to the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) by provincial…