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SA drivers’ licence
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has urged the Department of Transport to extend the validity period of driving licences to 10 years instead of the proposed eight years.
This comes after the department confirmed plans to extend the validity period from five years to eight years, to address the administrative backlogs caused by frequent breakdowns of the country’s only driver’s licence card printer.
The proposal is currently under review and is expected to be presented in Parliament in the final quarter of the financial year.
OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage, “Most countries around the world are an average of 10 years, some 15 even 20 to just renew the card. And this is quite thinking a money-making scheme and it’s sad to see government, one of the explanations when they said they are looking at it because they want to see what the financial implication is to government. Which implies that they think that this government department is there for a profit department. When actually government should be thinking with its head and saying what’s best for the public, what’s best for the country and it is to extend to 10 even longer. But they don’t think that way sadly.”
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