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Boost your business Local business owners will have an opportunity to mingle with top business minds at the third Ekasi Entrepreneurship Conference at the Lookout Hill on Thursday 13 November. The event’s keynote speaker will be mayor Patricia de Lille, who will speak on the importance of supporting small businesses in townships. Conference organiser Luvuyo Rani is confident the event will be a success. “This conference is packed with business big guns and entrepreneurs from townships,” he said. Movers and shakers such as Lufefe Nomjana (Espinaca Innovations), Indira (IamYoungpreneur), Bheki Kunene (Mind Trix Media) and Maloti Mothobi (Strato Wear) will share their stories with the audience. Peter Golding of Pam Golding , Professor Thomas Wolfgang of Stellenbosch University’s Business School and Dimension Data’s Andile Ngcaba will also deliver talks aimed at uplifing emerging business Andile Ngcaba people. “This will be great opportunities to network and exchange ideas,” said Rani. Luyuyo Rani
Provincial minister for transport and public works Donald Grant unveiled Safely Home’s Children Pedestrian Safety poster campaign at Itsitsha Primary School in Mfuleni on Tuesday. PHOTO: MBONGISENI MASEKO
ROAD SAFETY: CAMPAIGN TO CREATE AWARENESS
Caution ahead MBONGISENI MASEKO
A programme to raise awareness about the risk of child pedestrians was launched in Mfuleni on Tuesday. Provincial transport and public works minister Donald Grant unveiled Safely Home’s children pedestrian safety posters at Itsitsa Primary School. The launch formed part of the department’s Transport Month, celebrated throughout October, campaign. The poster campaign added to a string of events held to highlight
the dangers faced by child pedestrians on the roads. These events include a child pedestrian fatalities map, scholar transport operations and radio campaigns. Grant said statistics show most children are knocked down on streets from 14:00 on weekdays, and on weekends when “parents should be looking after their children”. Talking about accidents in the province, Grant said provincial government spends millions on road accident incidents, especially when compared to education and health. “We have to pass on the
message to communities, as well as talk to taxi associations and all motorists to drive carefully. The awareness must go beyond the school boundaries,” he said. As part of the campaign, a total of 300 posters were erected around Nkazimulo Primary School in Khayelitsha, where a boy was run over at pedestrian crossing in August. Posters were erected in Delft and around Oscar Mpetha High School in Nyanga. Deputy director for Road Safety Management David Frost believes speed limits in residential areas
must be reduced. Frost explained the chances of survival is greater if a child was knocked down by a car driving at 20km/h as opposed to 60km/h. “Drivers should be aware of children; not the other way around,” he said. Itsitsa Primary School principal Simphiwe Ulana said no pupil of the school was knocked down since it opened in 2006. But he said he hopes speed bumps could be installed in the streets surrounding the school, so to prevent accidents from occurring.