The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has revealed that there are major concerns around a tender to supply printers for South Africa’s new driving licence card.
The South African government has still not selected a company to provide a new driver’s licence card printer machine, over two years after being notified that the current printer had become obsolete.after a technical issue following two weeks of “routine maintenance” between 5 April 2023 and 19 April 2023.
The driver’s licence card machine is over two decades old, and the authority responsible for producing South Africa’s driver’s licence cards — the Department of Transport’s Driver’s Licence Card Account —However, the replacement only seemed to become a priority for the transport department after the first major breakdown in November 2021 and the ensuing frustration from motorists, civil action groups, and opposition parties.
According to the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse , a revised tender for the machine and cards was published in November 2022, with a closing date at the end of the month. That was subsequently extended.the tender has actually been published and withdrawn five times over the past few years. “Companies put in these tenders and do a lot of work. They have to put down deposits and show that they can do this, and then it gets withdrawn,” Duvenage said.Wayne Duvenage, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse CEO
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