SAFETY SUBJECT DEBATED

Rustenburg – Four North West schools were pitted against each other in an inter-school debate competition under the theme “ensuring safe practice at the railway level crossing”, held at the Geelhout Park Secondary School on 9 March.

The project is an initiative of the railway safety regulator (RSR) who partnered with the Impala Platinum Mine. Its aim is to increase the level of safety awareness among youth living in rail active communities. The bright minds outshone and outsmarted each other, digging deep from their intellectual reservoirs to try and convince the adjudicators on the reasons for and against safe practice at the railway level crossing. In the end, the adjudicators awarded the winning prize to the H.F Tlou Secondary School.

The competition is endorsed by the Department of Transport and the Department of Community Safety and Transport Management.

Neo Letebele, Impala Platinum Mine safety officer, stressed the importance of ensuring safety practice at railway crossings and highlighted the role played by trains in the mine where it is used to transport platinum from underground to the surface.