Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that he believed in the demerit system and that the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act would help reduce road fatalities.
The minister said that government would appeal last week’s high court ruling that the Aarto Act was invalid and unconstitutional.
He released statistics, which indicated that 1685 people died on the country’s roads over the festive season – a 14% increase over the previous year.
Minister Mbalula said that the importance of Aarto in driving behaviour change in motorists could not be over-emphasised.
And, it’s for this reason that they had decided to appeal the ruling of the Pretoria High Court.
“We’re going to appeal. We’ve not done that yet. We believe in the demerit system and incentivizing the drivers who are doing well and those who are not, we’ll subject them to the demerit system,” the minister said.
He said that AARTO was the final piece of the puzzle in implementing a new road traffic management system.
-EWN
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