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South Africa has normalised heavy drinking and policy alone won’t change that – it has to be a cultural shift. Photo: File

Stop ignoring the heavy drinking red flags

It will take more than policy to change South Africans’ excessive use of alcohol; we all need to take part in the Sober Curious movement

Drivers, law enforcement and pedestrians urged to do more to combat road fatalities

​Although there was a 2% decrease in fatal crashes from 2016 to 2017, the number of annual fatalities due to car accidents has increased dramatically

Pupils are condemned to death road

Parents depend on often unroadworthy vehicles to get their children to school because provincial departments are not fulfilling their obligations

Television presenter Simbarashe “Simba” Mhere.

Driven to kill: How alcohol fuels the carnage on SA’s roads

As the country mourns Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere, it is time for all those who drink and drive to ask whether they are part of the problem.

Over 900 killed on SA’s roads this December

The Road Traffic Management Corporation has said more than 900 travellers have been killed on South Africa’s roads so far this December.

Ten killed in Karoo accident

Ten people, including two children, were killed on Tuesday when a taxi burst into flames on the N1 between Beaufort West and Leeu Gamka.

Taxi driver appears in court following horror crash

The driver of the taxi involved in last week’s horrific Cape Flats level-crossing accident appeared briefly in a magistrate’s court on Tuesday.

Taxi driver arrested following Cape horror crash

Police on Sunday arrested the driver of a taxi that crashed into an oncoming train, claiming the lives of 10 children.

Mandela family identify driver in fatal crash

Mandela family identify driver in fatal crash

The car in which Nelson Mandela’s great grand-daughter died was driven by the son of the boyfriend of one of the former president’s daughters.

Nine killed in Polokwane crash

Three more bodies were found in the wreckage of a crash on the N1 outside Polokwane on Thursday morning, raising the death toll to nine, police said.

Tsvangirai’s wife laid to rest

Ministers from several African governments and thousands of Zimbabweans joined Morgan Tsvangirai at the burial of his wife in on Wednesday.

Zim’s MDC to meet on Tsvangirai crash

Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party will meet on Saturday to discuss its official position on the car crash in which he was hurt and his wife was killed.

MDC: No reason to treat Tsvangirai crash as suspicious

Rumours in Harare were quick to raise questions about whether the crash in which Morgan Tsvangirai was injured was another assassination attempt.

Children thrown from bakkie in highway crash, three die

Three children died and four were seriously injured when the bakkie taking them to school plummeted off the R55 in Centurion on Wednesday morning.

Three killed in Mpumalanga accident

Three people died in a multi-vehicle accident in Hemlock near Ngodwana in Mpumalanga, the SABC reported on Saturday.