The community previously said that had there been law enforcement agencies during the time of the incident, the accident would have been prevented.
PONGOLA - The Transport Ministry has now responded to calls by Pongola residents about the lack of road enforcement.Twenty lives were lost last Friday after a truck collided with a bakkie transporting children from school.
"We are strengthening our law enforcement interventions under the coordination of the RTMC by implementing the following measures: immediate deployment of the KwaZulu-Natal Transport Inspectorate as well as the local municipality traffic on the identified hazardous locations."
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