# Deputy Transport minister, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, says the transport sector is instrumental in the functioning of society, yet it has excluded those from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, women, and youth. According to the reports of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission, in 2022, only 38.8-percent of transport and logistics businesses were black-owned, which was a decrease from the 48.6-percent recorded in 2019. Hlengwa says the government is committed to a reform process that seeks to revitalise the sector, while also contributing to the social imperative of the transformation of society.
Deputy minister Hlengwa calling for transformation in the transport sector