Directorate of Road Traffic and Safety Services — Makata Office

The Directorate of Road Traffic and Safety Services — Makata Office is the Blantyre satellite office of Malawi's Directorate of Road Traffic and Safety Services (DRTSS), in the Makata Industrial Area of Blantyre. The Ministry of Transport and Public Works describes the Directorate's network: a secretariat on Paul Kagame Road in Lilongwe, four regional offices in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba and Mzuzu, and satellite offices for the Central and Southern regions at City Centre in Lilongwe and at Makata in Blantyre. Two further service centres operate at the Lilongwe and Mangochi post offices under the Mlambe One Stop Public Service Delivery Centre. The Directorate's mandate comes from the Road Traffic Act of 1997 and the Road Traffic Regulations of 2000. Under the Act it administers motor vehicle administration, driver licensing, operator authorisation and permit control, and other matters of traffic management and safety. As a department of the Ministry it acts both as a regulator, enforcing the law and giving advice, and as the implementer of policy for road transport operators. Its own website lists its responsibilities as: - vehicle registration - vehicle inspection for roadworthiness - driver testing and licensing - awareness and enforcement of road traffic rules and regulations - axle load control Makata is one of Blantyre's eight designated industrial areas and, with Limbe, one of the city's two heavy industrial sites. Blantyre, founded as a Church of Scotland mission in 1876, is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce and its second-largest city, with 800,264 people at the 2018 census. The Directorate has not published a telephone number or opening hours specific to the Makata office; the Ministry lists the Directorate's Regional Office South at P.O. Box 30177, Blantyre 3, on 0995 008 502.

626G+QGW, Blantyre, Malawi
Blantyre

15°47′17″S 35°1′35″E