{"id":40548,"date":"2025-10-25T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/mec-susana-violet-mathye-to-honour-winners-of-2025-driver-of-the-year-competition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:28:52","slug":"mec-susana-violet-mathye-to-honour-winners-of-2025-driver-of-the-year-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/mec-susana-violet-mathye-to-honour-winners-of-2025-driver-of-the-year-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC Susana Violet Mathye to Honour Winners of 2025 Driver of the Year Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Transport and Community Safety, Ms Susana Violet Mathye, will on Saturday, October 25, 2025, be honouring the winners of the 2025 Driver of the Year Competition at a Prize Giving Ceremony at Bolivia Lodge in Polokwane.<\/p>\n<p>The Driver of the Year competition, which started at the district level, aims to enhance driver skills and knowledge, ultimately reducing road fatalities. The competition features six categories, guided by statistics on types of vehicles that contribute to fatalities on our roads:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Male Bus Driver<br \/>\n&#8211; Ladies Bus Driver<br \/>\n&#8211; Male Taxi Driver<br \/>\n&#8211; Female Taxi Driver<br \/>\n&#8211; Rigid Truck Driver<br \/>\n&#8211; Light Delivery Vehicle Driver<\/p>\n<p>The competition&#039;s evaluation process includes a pre-trip inspection, theory test, track test, and road test. Over 60 drivers participated in the driver education sessions conducted by the Department.<\/p>\n<p>The Prize Giving Ceremony details are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; *Date:* Saturday, October 25, 2025<br \/>\n&#8211; *Venue:*&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75031&#038;page=mec-susana-violet-mathye-to-honour-winners-of-2025-driver-of-the-year-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Transport and Community Safety, Ms Susana Violet Mathye, will on Saturday, October 25, 2025, be honouring the winners of the 2025 Driver of the Year Competition at a Prize Giving Ceremony at Bolivia Lodge in Polokwane. The Driver of the Year competition, which started at the district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/571158267_1312563387578101_8527811573807738040_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-40548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/571158267_1312563387578101_8527811573807738040_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}