The strategic objectives of the department are as follows:

• Improving and ensuring road and public transport safety;

• Developing the people, the economy and the infrastructure of KwaZulu-Natal;

• Institutionalising public participation and strengthening democratic governance;

• Facilitating rural development, reducing poverty and inequality and ensuring an infrastructure balance;

• Facilitating the growth and development of the road construction industry in KwaZulu-Natal, so as to be fully representative of the demographic profile of the province; and

• Ensuring financial accountability, value based resource management and development of integrated management systems.