Road Marshals Ensure The Safe Passage For Learners

Road marshals play an important part in ensuring road safety education and are essential to enhancing the safety of our scholars at their schools. They are all the more crucial in places where there are high traffic volumes and poorly lit streets – a reality faced by pedestrians in Saul Mkhizeville.

Not only do road marshals regulate traffic, improve speed calming and facilitate safe crossing of the road, they also aid in instilling in the minds of young pedestrians, school learners in particular, an awareness of the importance of road safety.

It is for these reasons that Kangra has since 2012 been sponsoring the nine road marshals by providing them with personal protective equipment, guardhouse sheds/containers and a monthly stipend.

“The marshals are located at three strategic crossing points throughout Saul Mkhizeville in order to allow for scholars to get to and from school safely,” Community Liaison Officer Simo Yende explains.