Civil society group Afriforum has announced legal action to extend the grace period for expired driver’s licences beyond the March 2022 deadline.
Afriforum has instructed its lawyers to prepare a legal letter to the Department of Transport demanding that the grace period for the renewal of licences be extended for a reasonable period beyond 31 March 2022.
“This is only fair since the current backlog of licence applications was caused by the department’s own systemic and deep-rooted failures in the first place,” says Reiner Duvenage, campaign officer for strategy and content at Afriforum. Outa said the government will need to extend the deadline for all those who have expired licence cards, as this is an administrative problem, and to speed up the decision on whether to extend the validity period for the cards from five years to 10 years, or not.
Mbalula has indicated that there is still a backlog of 534,000 driving licence cards waiting to be printed and that there have been 3,641 transactions over the last 16 days.
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