The National Road Safety Council launched the official 2021/2022 Festive Season Report to give an account of the effectiveness of the efforts of various road safety stakeholders to reduce deaths and injuries on our national roads. In addition, the event, which was attended by heads of traffic enterprises and senior officials, was meant to help the road safety sub-sector gauge the matters that need to be improved to curb motor…
The festive Season Road Safety Campaign was launched by the
Deputy Minister of Works and Transport, Honourable Veikko Nekundi, on 25 November
2021, at the Roadblock in Keetmanshoop under the theme #DoTheRightAndSaveLives.
In his remarks, Honourable Nekundi said roads are meant to
enable access to both economic activities as well as social infrastructure and
basic amenities, however many lives are lost because of unbecoming conduct by
those who choose to…
The 18th African
Union Summit, held in January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (Decision
EX.CL/Dec.682 (XX) endorsed the conclusions of the Second Session of the
Conference of African Ministers of Transport (CAMT) held in Luanda, Angola in
November 2011 which, among others, adopted the third Sunday of November, which
is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims as Africa’s Road
Safety Day.
The establishment of this day is…
The
National Road Safety Council is mandated to promote road safety in the Republic
of Namibia as per Section 2 of the Road Safety Act, Act 9 of 1972. In terms of
the same Act, the Council is mandated to hold Conferences, Seminars, and
Workshops highlighting the road safety problem and creating awareness.
The 7th Annual Road Safety Conference
(23-25 February 2022) was held against the backdrop of…
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International
Relations and Co-operation, Nandi-Ndaitwah Netumbu inaugurated the Interim
Arandis Emergency Response and Traffic Management Centre on 06 December 2021.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, contemporary
records show on average, Namibia loses about 700 lives per year, which
translates into 27 lives per hundred thousand inhabitants. Being small in terms
of demographics, this is a death toll the country and the economy cannot…
The 2nd Decade of Action for Road Safety Strategy
2021/2030 was launched on 26 March 2021 by the National Road Safety Council,
following the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety that took place in Sweden
2020, which proclaimed 2021-2030 as the Second Decade of Action for road safety
globally.
Speaking at the launch, Mr. Eliphas !Owos-ôab, the Chairman of
the National Road Safety Council, stated that it is the responsibility…
The National Road Safety Council, in collaboration with stakeholders in the sub-sector, is organizing a High-Level Conference in Windhoek 02-03 October 2017, bringing together road safety experts, stakeholders, and policymakers to share on progress made in implementing road safety initiatives over the past two years. The Honorable Minister of Works and Transport will be the Keynote Speaker, with the fellow speakers which includes the governor of the Khomas Regions, Honorable…
In executing our mandate of promoting road safety in Namibia, it has become a culture that the NRSC in conjunction with its stakeholders carryout the Festive Season Road Safety Campaign with the aim of curbing the road carnage during this festive season. This year's Campaign launch took place in Otjiwarongo on 02 December 2015 and was launched by the Minister of Works and Transport, Honourable Alpheus !Naruseb.
The campaign has been…
During our on-going consultations particularly with the law enforcement, we came to appreciate the various challenges our stakeholders are faced with. The understanding enabled us as Council, to take a deliberate decision to focus our road safety interventions around three areas. These are persuasive targeted educational campaigns, aggressive law enforcement and responsive emergency response. To this end, we have committed about N$ 3 million to enhance law enforcement visibility. These…
On the basis of the Swakopmund Court ruling of 2003, the State applied for leave to appeal against the decision of the Regional Magistrate of Swakopmund in terms of Section 310 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, as amended.
The appeal was filed against the decision of the Regional Magistrate declaring GN 100 of 2003, published in terms of Section 82 (7) of the Road Traffic and Transport…
Children and young people are at significant risk on our roads. Road accidents are the leading cause of death and the second most frequent cause of hospitalisation among children across the world. According to the 2013 edition of the Global Status Report on Road Safety, published by the World Health Organisation, road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people, aged 15–29 years. In Namibia, the most…
The National Road Safety Council and its stakeholders launched a very ambitious month long campaign targeting the B1 Road stretching from Otavi through Otjiwarongo until Okahandja. This campaign, focusing largely on the B1 Route, is aimed at mitigating the impact of road crashes and deter traffic violations on the B1 highway. The campaign is themed “Let’s Be One on B1”, signifying that all road users must have a safety conscious…
The NRSC and the MVA Fund have taken note of recent reports published in various media houses citing the World Life Expectancy website [http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com], WHO website: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates_country/en/ as well as Sivak and Schoettle (2014) “Study on Mortality from Road Crashes in 193 Countries: A comparison with other Leading Causes of Death” published by the Transport Research Institute of the University of Michigan (UMTRI) regarding Namibia’s ranking as the…
Ahead of the anticipated exodus of people to various holiday destinations, the NRSC together with the MVA Fund and the National Police jointly launched the Festive Season Campaign around the theme: “Mind the Consequences of Speeding”. The aim of the campaign is to educate road users especially drivers of the dangers associated with speeding. The campaign will be three-pronged. The public awareness drive will be supplemented by the commensurate law…
The World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims was started by Road Peace in 1993. Since then, the day has been observed and promoted worldwide. In October 2005, the United Nations endorsed the day as a global day to be observed every third Sunday in November each year, and adopted a resolution calling on governments to commemorate the day in remembrance of road traffic victims in their respective countries.…
As a lead agency for road safety, the NRSC mobilised road safety stakeholders and embarked on a month-long integrated (multi- stakeholder) road show, the purpose of which was:
Each year a number of school-going children are killed by vehicle on their way to and from school. In most cases these accidents occur within close proximities of the school. To ensure safety around the school premises and at places where school-going children cross busy roads, scholar patrols are provided.
The legal bases for Scholar Patrols in Namibia is provided under section 74 (4) of the Road Traffic and Transport…
By 2015 road crashes are predicted by the WHO to be the leading cause of premature death and disability for children aged five and above. This epidemic on wheels - which already kills on the scale of malaria - will continue to rob even more families of their loved ones and their livelihoods, as the number of those killed doubles to well over two million per year by 2030.
Five million…
The current arrangements for road safety management in Namibia have its origin deep rooted in the dispensation prior to independence. Despite extensive review of the legislation regulating road traffic and road transport in the country, road safety management has largely remained fragmented. The White Paper on Transport Policy of 1995 does not explicitly cover road safety management, notwithstanding its far-reaching effects on the road traffic and transport environment and legislative…