South Africa considering combining ID and driver's licence cards
“The machine that produces driver’s licences is the old machine. No other country in the world is still using that machine,” Mbalula said.Mbalula said that South Africa’s new machine would be on par with the developed world.
Mbalula also recently announced that the DoT wants to launch a digital driver’s licence in the 2024/25 financial year. He added that the design of the new driver’s licence card had been finalised and that the department is waiting for approval from Cabinet.The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse had proposed a unified identity and driving licence card system in May 2021, BusinessTechThe group said that driver’s licences should be registered and linked to identity document cards and that the change should include extending the validity period for driver’s licences from five to ten years.
“If government wants to find a solution for this problem, they need to treat the cause and not the symptoms,” the portfolio manager for Outa’s public governance division, Dominique Msibi, said.
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