Kaya 959 Reporter
Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has called on the government to scrap South Africa’s five-year driver licence in favour of a system that will see licences renewed every 10 years.
Outa chief executive, Wayne Duvenage believes the country should consider extending the process of renewing licences to every 10 years, instead of five years.
“There are many examples of licences being renewed after every 10 years, even in South Africa it was discussed some years back. I think in 2013 it was agreed to by (then) minister Dipuo Peters, and then there was an about-turn and the whole plan was scrapped,” Duvenage said.
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He has also slammed Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula for the delays in switching the country to a new driving licence card.
“So we hear a lot of talk and no action. And we are not surprised that we find ourselves in this sort of situation where there is now a backlog of driving licences,” he said.
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OUTA estimates that South Africa currently has a backlog of more than 500,000 driving licence cards due to the breakdown of the machinery responsible for printing licences.



