As Mpumalanga prepares for the Easter Break,101 new traffic officers have been appointed to help the province improve road safety.

Fifty of the officers graduated from the Limpopo Traffic Training College, while the rest graduated in Gauteng in January this year. With the addition of the newly recruited officers, Mpumalanga now has 745 traffic officers.

Mpumalanga MEC for Community, Safety, Security and Liaison, Vusi Shongwe, on Friday introduced the new officers at a sod turning ceremony for the construction of the Mpumalanga Traffic Training College in Bushbuckridge.

The college will be used to train future traffic officers and it will also be used to reskill existing officials.

The new college will help the province to save money, as traffic management trainees will no longer be sent outside the province for training.

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