Government has honoured an 80-year-old driver as a "sterling example", for going 62 years without a single traffic fine, in a nation where 40 people are killed on the roads every day.
Hazel Souma was handed a certificate for her blemish-free run, of more than six decades, by Transport Minister Sbusiso Ndebele, in Cape Town today.
Ndebele says Souma's unblemished driving record and sterling example is proof that the country can put an end to the carnage on its roads.
At the other end of the scale, a motorcyclist appeared in the Vryburg magistrates' court today after being caught riding at 226 kilometres an hour.
