South Africans are renewing their driver’s licences — and then not fetching them

The Road Traffic Management Corporation said that 90% of drivers aren’t collecting their licence cards.

Only one in ten drivers who have been sent SMS messages to confirm that their licence cards are ready for collection are coming forward, according to the Road Traffic Management Corporation .with 702, RTMC spokesperson Simon Zwane said that only 10% of drivers are coming forward to collect their cards, resulting in a pile-up of 32,000 completed cards at its offices.

However, there are several complaints online relating to people not receiving confirmation that their card is ready. Zwane explained that the cards building up at their offices are from renewal applications submitted towards the end of 2021. He added that the validity of temporary licences acquired at the time would soon expire.

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