Festive season operations well underway in Mpumalanga

The efforts by traffic law enforcement officers to curb lawlessness and save lives on the road this Festive Season are well underway. Various operations held across the province saw the officers stopping and checking nearly 30 000 vehicles between 01 and 07 December 2025. About 8 463 vehicles were weighed to determine the correctness of their loads. Over 4 600 written summonses were issued to motorists for various offences.

As part of dealing with unroadworthy vehicles, about 103 vehicles were discontinued and about 121 vehicles were impounded. The traffic law enforcement officers will continue in the same vigour this coming week leading to the school closures. Law enforcement will continue to show no mercy to unroadworthy vehicles and those with excessive loads.

Mpumalanga MEC for Community Safety, Security and Liaison, Mr. Jackie Macie, is calling on motorists, vehicle owners and public transport operators to ensure that their vehicles are roadworthy and all defects are corrected before taking to the road.

"It is the responsibility of every owner to ensure that their vehicles are roadworthy at all times. Failure to attend to defects poses danger not only to the driver but also to others. Law enforcers must clamp down on unroadworthy vehicles and force every vehicle owner to comply," says the MEC.

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Issued by Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison