Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says that she wants her MECs to lead by example by not abusing their power with the use of blue light convoys.

Health MEC Theuns Botha was the last of the provincial cabinet members to have the blue lights and sirens removed from his ministerial vehicle.

Zille said she wants to set a precedent whereby no government official uses blue light cavalcades in the Cape unless it is a true emergency.

"Ministers are citizens like everybody else, we have an equal right to the road but not an additional right to the road," she said.
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