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07. Policy Mandate The Department of Transport develops policies to guide among others its public entities, provincial and local government activities related to traffic management and road safety. The aforementioned is guided by other national policies including but not limited to the following:

Name of Act

Description

The NDP is the country’s national long term plan which sets government targets to guide individual departments including the Department of Transport and its service delivery intervention.

National Development Plan

NRSS flows from the UNDA and sets out short, medium and long term road safety interventions aimed at a 50% reduction of road fatalities by 2030.

National Road Safety Strategy

The MTSF sets out medium term strategic goals towards the achievement of vision 2030, which amongst others includes the tackling of the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment through economic growth interventions.

Medium Term Strategic Framework

United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety

UNDA is an international treaty to which RSA is a signatory. It sets out international and member states road safety targets to reduce road fatalities by 50% in 2030.

Table 3: Policy Mandate

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