# The minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, announced he will publish monthly statistics on road fatalities from March this year. He was speaking at the briefing on the statistics for the festive season. A total of one-thousand-685 fatalities were recorded over this past festive period which is a 14-percent increase from the previous period. Mbalula says statistics will now be used more often to monitor road safety:
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