The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse described the RTMC’s reasoning for not extending the validity period as “unfounded” and “ludicrous”.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has slammed transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga ’s failure to extend the validity period of South African driving licence card s.
“Many countries around the world have license validity well beyond five years. They are not immune to the supposed ‘communicable diseases’ reason provided. In simple terms, we find this reason to be ludicrous,” added Outa. “Should we arrive at a conclusion informed by the research, we will immediately spring into action,” said Mbalula.
Chikunga said the decision to increase the validity period was made after Mbalula commissioned an investigation into international trends surrounding driving licence validity periods. “We’ve always had the view that anything from eight to 10 years is a more reasonable validity period than the current five years,”“We were led to believe that this was something that was going to be presented to cabinet in terms of a way forward.”Beard said he was unsure of what Msibi referred to when he linked eye health and communicable diseases.
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