{"id":39361,"date":"2022-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=3981d2264bb52b1b4349e83958716713"},"modified":"2022-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"new-drivers-licence-card-machine-to-be-presented-to-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/new-drivers-licence-card-machine-to-be-presented-to-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"New driver&#8217;s licence card machine to be presented to Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, says the department will present a new driver\u2019s licence card machine for approval at the first Cabinet meeting of the year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe machine (from Germany) that produces driver\u2019s licenses is&#8230; old&#8230; No other country in the world is still using that machine&#8230; It\u2019s going to be a new&#8230; machine that is going to be on par with the developed world.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver and above that, [we] are introducing a new card [machine] that doesn\u2019t need to go to Germany to be fixed. Once cabinet approves that, new machines are going to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula clarified that the breakdown of the current machine came before plans could be finalised to replace it &#8211; causing a backlog in the issuing of driver&#8217;s licence cards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230; Whilst we were doing away with that machine, it had an accident and\u2026 the machine had to be taken away to be repaired in Germany. It is being fixed as we speak. We have already taken it to Germany but in the interim, we will introduce new measures on what will happen (sic).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore on social media, the Minister said an online payment service for motor vehicle licence renewal, driving licence card renewals, learner\u2019s licence tests and driving licence tests are on the cards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interface of live enrolment units with Home Affairs has been completed. This will enable the immediate validation of fingerprints and address. We are working with the HPCSA [Health Professions Council of South Africa] to enable optometrist to upload eye tests on our systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, says the department will present a new driver\u2019s licence card machine for approval at the first Cabinet meeting of the year.\u201cThe machine (from Germany) that produces driver\u2019s licenses is&#8230; old&#8230; No other country in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New driver&#039;s licence card machine to be presented to Cabinet - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/new-drivers-licence-card-machine-to-be-presented-to-cabinet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New driver&#039;s licence card machine to be presented to Cabinet - South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, says the department will present a new driver\u2019s licence card machine for approval at the first Cabinet meeting of the year.\u201cThe machine (from Germany) that produces driver\u2019s licenses is... old... 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