Fleet Management holds campaign on subsidized vehicles (23 October 2009); Eastern Cape Department of Education

Fleet Management holds campaign on subsidized vehicles

Posted on Friday, 23 October 2009
Article by Pumzile Ludidi

“It has been discovered that the ECDoE (Eastern Cape Department of Education) employees are not well informed about subsidized vehicles, hence Fleet Management found it is imperative to organize information sharing sessions for all 23 districts including Head Office,” said Zolile Ngaba, Director of Assets Management.

Addressing the Head Office employees on behalf of the Fleet Management on the 20 March 2009, Ngaba said the National Department of Transport deemed it necessary to establish this scheme in order to minimize the costs incurred in the running of the Government Garage (GG) cars, which results from misuse of government vehicles. He emphasised that subsidised vehicles are working tools that could enable officials to reach all the schools in the province, irrespactive of the terrains.

Senior Transport Officer, Nomachina Mzamo from the Department said in order to qualify for a subsidized vehicle, one must be a government employee who works 70% of their time out of the office (fieldworker) and be able to travel at least 1 750 KM per month. She further explained that salary pay slips, proof of residence, appointment letter and obviously driver’s license are among the necessities to get subsidized vehicles. Officials in the scheme have to ensure that all their trips are authorised and the log books are filled-in and submitted monthly.

Mzamo said that about 500 applications for subsidised vehicles have already been submitted this year. She requested officials who are interested in subsidised vehicles not to hesitate contacting her officce on the following:

Email: nomachina.mzamo@edu.ecprov.gov.za
Tel: (040) 608 4447

OR

bulelwa.galela@edu.ecprov.gov.za
Tel: (040) 60804449

Article Tags: Subsidised Vehicles