​By Koena Moabelo

The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport (GDRT) 
and North-West Community Safety and Transport 
Management (NWCSTM) convened to iron out issues 
relating to efforts to get North-West Transport Investment 
(NTI) working again. This was achieved through the 
development of an implementation protocol. 
The meeting was held on Friday, 07 July 2023 at the King’s 
Palace Hotel, Rustenburg, North-West Province.
 
This exercise was initiated after North-West Transport 
Investment (NTI) Bus Company, established 50 years ago, 
began experiencing financial challenges and has led to 
voluntary business rescue. This further negatively affected 
commuters mainly in the areas of Hammanskraal, north of 
Tshwane.

The implementation protocol, in the main, extends the 
principles of participation and co-ordination between GDRT 
and NWCSTM terms. It further talks to programmes that 
transcend conventional organisational boundaries in planning, 
budgeting, and implementation. 
 The objective of the meeting, in its entirety, was to ensure the 
NTI is recovers from financial distress and can continue to 
deliver on its public mandate of providing transport to 
communities.
With the implementation protocol in place, this will lead to 
promotion of good conduct, integration, participation, 
co-operation, and co-ordination between both departments. 
 This is not limited to aspects such as the exercise of statutory 
powers, performance of a statutory function, the development 
and provision of a service, implementation of operation, and 
managing a joint programme at best. 
n his presentation Mr Aubrey Motubatse, GDRT’s Deputy 
Director-General (DDG) of Transport Branch, the two 
departments, through the technical task team, will work 
tirelessly to ensuring the sustainability of the entity and the 
continued provision of commuter transport services.
“To accelerate resolving issues faced by NTI, the meeting has 
agreed to meet on weekly basis”, added the DDG.