Hon House Chairperson, the Transport and the Trade and Industry departments are said to have failed to comply with the international standards in modernising the country's antiquated car safety regulations. Even the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications admits much to these allegations.
We learned through credit agencies, domestically and abroad, as in the Global New Car Assessment Programme and Automobile Association that South Africa still lacks both the electronic stability control, i.e, ESC, and antilock breaking systems which all have been made compulsory to be fitted as standard into our vehicles.
In countries such as ours where car accidents claim innocent lives almost on a daily basis, these recent revelations have come as a great shock to us. Can these departments assure South African motorists that their vehicles are risk averse and safety proof? These departments must pull up their socks; the house is on fire. Maziye ke! [Let us do it.]