[TOP STORY] Dotransport plans to introduce a new driver’s licence card this year & improve the service at driving licence test centres (DLTCs). Click here to read the full story: Moneyweb 2021TopStory Transport
The Department of Transport plans to introduce a new driver’s licence card this year and implement a bouquet of measures to improve the service the public receives when visiting and interacting with driving licence test centres .
Chaos at DLTCs, which was exacerbated by the Covid-19 lockdowns, led to the validity of driver’s licences and learner driver’s licences that expired during the lockdowns in 2020 being extended until August 16, 2021.Mbalula said the NDoT has started a process to consider the possibility of streamlining and rationalising its road traffic entities, such as the Road Traffic Management Corporation , the Road Traffic Infringement Agency and the Driving Licence Card Account trading entity.
“The end-game of our interventions is improved service delivery and enhanced efficiency in the functioning of DLTCs, free of corruption,” he said.Mbalula added that the NDoT has engaged with the three spheres of government and agreed on a range of measures that will address the most pressing challenges relating to driver and vehicle licensing.
“There is a whole bouquet of measures that will be unveiled piece by piece as and when we implement them,” he said.NDoT Director-General Alec Moemi said the new driver’s licence card has got to meet the standard of the International Organisation for Standardisation. “State organisations have to ramp up security features to make sure that we are ahead of the curve of what the public can potentially produce.