Let’s endeavour to end carnage on our roads

Road safety is once again the buzzword as the country is headed towards what is expected to be a crazy period, with millions taking to the roads over the next three weekends, which all happen to be long weekends. Traditionally, South Africans use such weekends for long trips, be it for holidaying, visiting family or other pursuits.

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The first of the trio of these long weekends is Easter, which often gives traffic authorities all sorts of headaches, and is preceded by campaigns to ramp up road safety awareness.

Easter this year is expected to have increased volumes of traffic on the roads, especially routes to the north of the country, with the biggest church in the land, the Zion Christian Church, holding its first Easter pilgrimage at its headquarters in Moria, east of Polokwane, in Limpopo, since the outbreak of Covid-19.

The church held what amounted to a trial run during its annual September (African new year) conference last year, when it allowed a very limited number of pilgrims, well under half of its membership, to gather at the holy city.