The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is considering launching an expired driving licence card civil disobedience campaign.
It is demanding that the government extend the driving licence renewal deadline or instruct enforcement agencies not to issue fines to motorists whose driving licence cards expired in the past 12 months.
Outa previously successfully launched and maintained a civil disobedience campaign against the implementation of the e-toll system on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), with e-toll payment rates on the GFIP now below 20%.
The organisation’s demand follows the Department of Transport confirming last week there will not be any further extensions to the driving licence renewal grace period beyond March 31 for motorists whose driving licences expired during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
The grace period deadline applies to driving licence cards that expired between March 26, 2020, and August 31, 2021.
Outa estimates that there will be more than one million motorists with expired driving licence cards on April 1 and has warned the government not to start a war it cannot win with motorists over driving licences.
Outa accountability division executive director Advocate Stefanie Fick said on Tuesday the number of motorists with expired driving licences is a significant problem and not one that government will be able to wish away or dump in the laps of its citizens.
“The state cannot simply ignore this problem, as it will leave motorists at the mercy of overzealous or corrupt law enforcement officers who may use this as an opportunity to extort bribes from the motoring public,” said Fick.
“Administrative difficulties and significant backlogs in the renewal process of driver’s licence cards have been the order of the day-long before the arrival of the pandemic or the breakdown of the card printing machine at the end of 2021.
“These problems are largely due to difficulties in securing bookings through the online booking system forced onto motorists,” she said.
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