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Arrive alive on the roads

With October being Transport Month, here are some basic tips to help ensure you arrive safely at your destination. 

Accidents are a daily sight on South African roads, costing road-users not only money but often their health and sometimes even their lives.

There are numerous causes of accidents but they can largely be avoided by following a few simple rules, the most basic of which is sticking to the speed limit.

Aarto encourages safer driving behavior

Drivers need to be extra vigilant when it comes to sticking to speed limits and obeying road rules, following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Amendment Act into law in August.

Aarto, which is being introduced to improve law-abiding and safer driving behaviour to reduce road accidents, will be implemented once it has been gazetted.

GBV can cause mental instability

The devastating effects of Gender-Based Violence can cause women to experience various mental health disorders.

Many people who access services at psychiatric hospitals have in one way or another been impacted or affected by Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

This is according to Clinical Psychologist Robyn Travers, who works at the Department of Health’s Tara The H. Moross Hospital (also known
as Tara Psychiatric Hospital) in Johannesburg.

Qualification fraudsters could find themselves behind bars

Lying about your qualifications could now lead to jail time, according to the new National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Amendment Act which aims to prevent the misrepresentation of qualifications and fraud.

President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the NQF Amendment Act 12 of 2019 into law on 13 August and it was published for general information on 19 August. It will come into effect when it is made public in the Government Gazette.

Acting in the best interests of the child

Josephine Peta, the Senior Legal Officer at the Office of the Family Advocate, said that according to Section 18 of the Children’s Act, children are not the subjects of parental authority but people with their own rights.

This means that even if you have been abused by your co-parent, you cannot deny your children conditional access to them, even in cases where the co-parents have taken out restraining orders against each other.

The exception is when the children themselves have been abused. In such cases, a protection order should be taken out on their behalf.

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