Recognising that any non-profit organisation which wishes to make progress on its aims and objectives has to have the savvy to partner with a variety of other organisations which can help us to attain our objectives, JPSA has formed alliances, relationships and partnerships with a variety of other entities to ensure that we achieve our objectives as quickly and effectively as possible.
If your organisation feels that it would like to align or partner with JPSA, or indeed become involved in sponsoring any of our initiatives, please contact us so we may discuss a way forward.
Some examples of these are as follows:
Unarguably, the very best place to start dealing with road safety issues is in ensuring that people who drive vehicles are competent to do so. Whilst there is currently no legal requirement for learner drivers to undergo any formal training, there is a requirement for driving instructors to be qualified and registered.
The standards of driving instruction in South Africa is by and large extremely poor and there are literally thousands of unregistered and unqualified driving instructors operating, robbing people of their hard-earned cash and furthering corrupt activities by offering "guaranteed driving licences".
SAIDI has partnered with JPSA to focus on qualified driver instruction and excellence in quality of service. Through SAIDI, JPSA is able to provide qualified training, not only for new drivers, but for those who already have their driving licenses so as to improve their skills and/or correct delinquent behaviour and bad habits.
When JPSA first came up with its eyewitness programme in 2009 and looked for a partner to assist in providing the facilities to get people to see for themselves what the results of delinquent behaviour on our roads are, the response we received from some providers was little short of shocking.
One such provider came back with the response "We don't believe it is our job to correct people's behaviour. That is for law enforcement authorities to do."
Not so of ER24. They jumped at the opportunity to assist us and readily and willingly accepted our idea and facilitated our eyewitness programme. To this day, ER24 is the sole provider of this facility to JPSA and this, we believe, shows their commitment to improving the situation despite the fact that it is their function and business to "mop up the mess" when crashes do occur. Their sense of social responsibility is simply fantastic.
R2X is an international software company specialising in the design, development and ongoing support of web-based management system solutions.
Their flagship product - R2MS - is an enterprise-level AARTO management solution aimed at helping organisations and their fleet managers reduce risk and improve road safety in relation to the nascent Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act of South Africa.
They have offices in South Africa and Canada and an international management team of experienced software executives and have partnered with JPSA to bring their AARTO management solution, not only to large fleet operators, but to smaller entities and individuals as well.
The GRSP ZA is committed to reducing road crash related fatalities and injuries in partnership with all sectors.
GRSP ZA Objectives
- To broker partnerships between business, civil society and government agencies that are dedicated to the sustainable reduction of death and injury on South Africa's roads.
- To support programmes that provide road safety education to learners and communities that are in the proximity of hazardous road hotspots.
- To support communities that are in the proximity of hazardous road hotspots by advising stakeholders on how to take ownership and responsibility for their communities' safety on the road.
- To support law enforcement by aligning our members' programmes with the enforcement initiatives in the government's National Road Safety Strategy.
- To work with and share knowledge with other countries.
- To adapt international road safety best practice.
National Traffic Police and the RTMC
Although neither the RTMC nor the National Traffic Police can be described as alliance partners with JPSA, they have a vital role to fulfil in one of the three pillars of road safety which are Education, Engineering and Enforcement.
Tasked with fulfilling the enforcement role is David Tembe, former Director of Operations and long-time acting Chief of the JMPD who is now the Chief of the National Traffic Police.
A strict and unrelenting law enforcer, Chief Tembe is also a man of impeccable integrity with a sense of fairness and justice, coupled with a hatred for corruption that is very hard to find in South Africa today. His two most outstanding features however are a preparedness to listen and his willingness to act responsibly and effectively.
Over the years, JPSA has forged a relationship with him based on mutual trust and respect and because of this we are able to access his personal attention at any given time.
This is not to say that he does our bidding nor us his, but the one thing that is for sure is that we can rely on him to act when we need his assistance in tackling truly dangerous road users and he can rely on us to interact with him and criticise and correct him when he gets the wrong end of the stick.
His employer, the RTMC has been less than cooperative or open with us in the past, but there is no reason to think that we will stop bashing at their door and simply let them railroad their way through the public without engagement from us. This has already started to yield results and many people within the RTMC show, at the very least, a very healthy respect for JPSA and in some notable cases, a willingness to work with us towards common goals.
Over the past two years, JPSA has contributed to content on the arrivealive.co.za website by offering expert opinions and practical advice to motorists concerned with road safety.
JPSA is proud to be associated with Advocate Johan Jonck and his road safety initiative, which is not to be confused with the Department of Transport's Arrive Alive campaign which is failing dismally at achieving any of its objectives. Arrivealive.co.za, like JPSA receives absolutely no funding at all from government.
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This page was last updated on Friday 5 August, 2011