After complaints from many OUTA contributors, Wayne Duvenage’s organisation took a conclude ogle at the explanations for the lengthen within the issuing of an estimated half of 1,000,000 driver’s licences. The investigation uncovered a money-making racket at a government division – where officers are extra drawn to raking in money than serving the final public – with disastrous consequences as the historical machine that produces the cards has broken down. – Alec Hogg
Wayne Duvenage on the 10-year licence renewal thought to beget immense advantages for SA Executive and voters:
It goes advantage to closing year and even before closing year when the full driver’s licence, queuing and booking procedure turned a debacle. It turned pretty problematic for folks to rep their licences, particularly in Gauteng and I mediate KZN turned into additionally an difficulty. We obtained enthusiastic because right here is pure maladministration with inefficiencies inner government. Our supporters were calling on us to learn and discontinue one thing about it. We play within the transport plight pretty a lot, from e-tolls and long-distance tolling to R2. And this turned into going to beget an effect on the R2 as effectively. I wager it started there; by us partaking with the authorities and trying to rep them to up their recreation and kind these problems out. This has long previous round and round in circles. Regarded as likely the most issues we made up our minds to discontinue turned into compare what the norm is in other ingredients of the field. We stumbled on that 10-year renewals is a norm in many worldwide locations, and it’s one thing we must always rep into consideration. So, we wrote to the Minister of Transport suggesting this. We additionally stumbled on that in 2013, under Dipuo Peters who turned into the Minister of Transport at the time, this had already been accepted … to beget the renewal duration every 10 years and now no longer every 5. As which that it’s likely you will most certainly likely have faith in, that will most certainly be an immense advantage to now no longer handiest the federal government, nonetheless to society, to voters. There just isn’t always a want to resume every 5 years other than to update your photograph, which is terribly straightforward to discontinue in an on-line plight. To discontinue so every 10 years makes remarkable extra sense. Then again, this resolution turned into rescinded and we deem that is because they were going to lose a entire lot of money. That is the staunch crux of the order right here. Is this about making a living? Or is that this about developing effectivity inner a relate? We deem this Department of Transport is now no longer invested in its of us and what is handiest for the nation, nonetheless pretty in what is handiest for itself, its cronies and its internal empire-building. Now we beget had to rep remarkable extra enthusiastic and to up the ante on this difficulty. Then lo and witness, in November, the motive force’s licence machine broke down, the handiest one the division has. Now there’s every other backlog and right here is ravishing going from a mess to a catastrophe.
On the estimated number of of us waiting to resume their licences:
The backlog in issuing licences is one thing between 400,000 and 500,000 and there are these whose licences were accepted. They’ve performed the full forms up till November nonetheless are unable to rep their licences because the machine can’t print them. So, they beget a licence nonetheless if they rep stopped by the traffic police, they’ll handiest rep their faded one. We mediate the police are going to be figuring out and so they were nonetheless this has been a debacle. Right here’s the diagram it impacts the plight of policing and making sure boulevard security takes build aside and of us are properly licensed. They are able to’t discontinue their jobs properly because they ravishing don’t know whether or now no longer of us beget licences or now no longer.
On the Department of Transport being a money-making empire:
We are unpacking reports and beget stumbled on some very intelligent stuff. It is a small division; it doesn’t need a entire lot of of us nonetheless there’s barely empire. It appears to be making pretty a entire lot of money and there are surpluses there. What is intelligent is the broad develop in depreciation. This would provide an explanation for that the division has equipped equipment over the closing couple of years: desks, furnishings and computer techniques or one thing. Now we beget to ogle into that. What goes on on this division? It is analogous to the RTMC, the Avenue Traffic Administration Corporation. But every other time, a money-making empire that goes available to discontinue as remarkable as it’s going to to effect extra money pretty than making existence extra efficient for its voters. Let’s announce, if you love to beget to resume your automobile or driver’s licence, if you hasten into the administrative middle, it’s cheap nonetheless if you love to beget to discontinue it on-line, this might cost you R700. That is the reverse of what occurs with current agencies. Are you able to specialize in a monetary institution charging you further to hasten on-line and trying to relief of us to hasten into the monetary institution to discontinue their transactions? It doesn’t work love that on this planet nonetheless at the Department of Transport, it appears to be the norm.
On when the division plans on hanging new equipment in build aside:
We don’t beget the rest. Now we beget written to the division and requested them to be a runt extra citizen-centric, to preserve the society educated of what goes on on. Save they beget a new machine? Will the hot one be mounted? What goes on? Correct reveal us in reveal that we are able to all understand the thought and technique to repair this. Otherwise, they leave too remarkable as much as speculation and the federal government’s credibility goes out the window when that occurs. For sure, this division’s credibility has been shot for a truly very long time nonetheless they’re doing themselves no favours by now no longer trying to assist that. So, the short answer is no, we don’t beget any thought of what goes on on or when this might be mounted.
Be taught additionally:
- Outa slams Department of Transport as driver’s license saga unravels
- ‘There’s no reason they’ll’t scrap e-tolls’ – OUTA’s Wayne Duvenage
- “If we don’t do away with this opportunity to repair what’s scandalous, we’ll seriously change a banana republic.” – OUTA CEO
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