Justice Project SA chief executive, Howard Dembovsky, explained that the new Aarto Act was unconstitutional and called for South Africans to wake up and smell the coffee.
Pretoria - The new amended Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act to be rolled out in June will presume motorists guilty until they prove themselves innocent.
This was said by litigators Howard Dembovsky, the chief executive of Justice Project South Africa and his associates from De Klerk and Marais Incorporated, who appealed to South Africans to wake up and smell the coffee because this was wrong. Dembovsky addressed the media in Hatfield to highlight various concerning foundational provisions in the Aarto Act that’s already signed into law.
He said, to be clear, he did not have a problem with the points demerit system that will be ushered in by the act because South Africa should have had that kind of road safety system many years ago. It was, however, the idea that motorists would be presumed guilty of infringements until proven innocent that bothered him.
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