{"id":284360,"date":"2018-11-15T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=284360"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:05:44","slug":"joburgs-traffic-wardens-have-been-given-extra-powers-heres-what-they-can-do-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/284360\/joburgs-traffic-wardens-have-been-given-extra-powers-heres-what-they-can-do-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg&#8217;s traffic wardens have been given extra powers &#8211; here&#8217;s what they can do now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg has announced the graduation of new 171 traffic wardens who are attached to the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD).<\/p>\n<p>The wardens, who will be joined by 1,500 JMPD recruits, are former Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees who were previously trained to control traffic flow.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the graduation, executive mayor Herman Mashaba urged the wardens to help restore law and order in the City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not merely a job but a calling to serve, which will prove along the way to be a thankless one,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you caution an errant motorist or issue a stiff fine to another, you\u2019re likely to be reprimanded as though you are the offending party,&#8221; said Mashaba.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor also announced that following discussions with the Gauteng Provincial Government, the new wardens will have additional powers, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When in uniform, they can require a driver of any vehicle to stop;<\/li>\n<li>They can regulate and control traffic on any public road and give directions as may be necessary;<\/li>\n<li>They can require any person to give their name, address, and any other particulars for identification purposes, if they suspect the person of having committed an offence; and<\/li>\n<li>In respect of any motor vehicle, demand the owner, operator or driver to produce any documents as may be prescribed in terms of the National Road Traffic Act of 1996.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/284052\/5-major-new-traffic-laws-that-every-south-african-needs-to-know-about\/\">5 major new traffic laws that every South African needs to know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg mayor, Herman Mashaba, has given extra powers to the city&#8217;s traffic wardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-284360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284386,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284360\/revisions\/284386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}