South Africa’s only driver’s licence card printing machine has broken down — again

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South Africa’s only driver’s licence card printing machine has broken down — again
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The Department of Transport says its driving licence card printing machine broke down and will take weeks to fix.

When news broke of the first outage, South Africans also learned that the country only had one printing machine.

“You don’t want to have a situation where the printing of licence cards is farmed out to the DLTCs,” stated Beard. Then-transport minister Fikile Mbalula also explained that South Africa’s current printing machine is very old — likely the last one still in operation and supported by its German manufacturer.

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