Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, will commemorate Mandela Day by helping to clean up taxi ranks in the City of Johannesburg.

Through the Smart Mobility Campaign, the MEC and senior officials from the department will clean up Bree and Baragwanath Taxi Ranks as advocacy for a sustained clean environment.

The Smart Mobility Campaign primarily aims to ensure that all public roads in the province are kept to acceptable standards, are safe and allow for smart and easy movement of people and goods. Activities include, but are not limited to, grass cutting; patching of potholes; undertaking road markings; installing signage and fixing traffic lights.

Mandela International Day is celebrated on 18 July every year in honour of the first democratically elected President of South Africa, the late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

The team will start the cleanup campaign at 9am at the Bree Taxi Rank and Baragwanath Taxi Rank on Thursday.

Source: South African Government News Agency