AfriForum to head to court to get licence renewal scrapped
Lobby group AfriForum says it wants the five year-renewal of licences to be scrapped and for Pretoria High Court to declare it unconstitutional. This is after the country’s only licencing card machine broke down for the second time.
AfriForum said it would be heading to court to contest this rule, as there was no legislation to back it up.
“The National Road Traffic Act and the regulations are too vague to be enforceable. The legislation does not clearly distinguish between a driver’s licence and a driver’s license card. It also does not explicitly stipulate that motorists must apply for a new licence card when the card expires,” said the group’s Ernst van Zyl.
Van Zyl said renewals should still exist but should be done at a more realistic time frame.
“The more realistic and likely would be an extension to a realistic eight or 10 years as we see in other countries.”
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