Department of Transport (South Africa)

Department of Transport

List 10 other official names: Departement van Vervoer  (Afrikaans) umNyango wezokuThutha  (Southern Ndebele) iSebe lezoThutho  (Xhosa) uMnyango Wezokuthutha  (Zulu) Litiko Letekutfutsa  (Swati) Kgoro ya Dinamelwa  (Northern Sotho) Lefapha la Dipalangwang  (Sotho) Lefapha la Dipalangwa  (Tswana) Ndzawulo ya Vutleketli  (Tsonga) Muhasho wa Vhuendi  (Venda)
Department overview
Jurisdiction	Government of South Africa
Headquarters	Forum Building, 159 Struben Street, Pretoria 25°44′33″S 28°11′10″E / 25.74250°S 28.18611°E / -25.74250; 28.18611
Employees	529 (2010)
Annual budget	R35,084 million (2011/12)
Minister responsible	Dipuo Peters, Minister of Transport
Deputy Minister responsible	Sindisiwe Chikunga, Deputy Minister of Transport
Department executive	Pule Godfrey Selepe, Director-General: Transport
Website	www.transport.gov.za

The Department of Transport is the department of the South African government concerned with transport. The political head of the department is the Minister of Transport, currently Dipuo Peters; her deputy is Sindisiwe Chikunga.

Responsibility for transport is constitutionally between the national transport department and the nine provincial transport departments. The national department has exclusive responsibility for national and international airports, national roads, railways and marine transport; the national and provincial departments share responsibility for other airports, public transport, road traffic regulation and vehicle licensing; and the provincial departments have exclusive responsibility for provincial and local roads, traffic and parking.

In the 2011 national budget, the department received an appropriation of 35,084 million rand. As of 30 September 2010 it had 529 employees.

The Department of Transport is divided into six branches:

The department is also responsible for several semi-independent agencies and state-owned companies:

Provincial transport departments:

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