Plan to move away from physical vehicle licence discs in South Africa

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Plan to move away from physical vehicle licence discs in South Africa

The Road Traffic Management Corporation of South Africa (RTMC) is planning to move away from physical vehicle licence discs towards an electronic disc regime relying on number plate recognition.

The entity, which falls under the Department of Transport, reported the development during an update on its Annual Performance Plan to a meeting of the National Council of Provinces on 3 June 2026.
 
"To combat this fraud, Juma said the RTMC was modernising its systems to move toward a “discless” environment with “gadgets” that can show vehicle registration details by scanning a number plate.
The RTMC would equip its traffic officers with these “e-force” gadgets, which will also be used for logging traffic fines, replacing the current physical ticket books."

Haai jirre mense.
Rock bottom.
They're not even trying to bulls**t us anymore.
 
RaptorSA said:
"To combat this fraud, Juma said the RTMC was modernising its systems to move toward a “discless” environment with “gadgets” that can show vehicle registration details by scanning a number plate.
The RTMC would equip its traffic officers with these “e-force” gadgets, which will also be used for logging traffic fines, replacing the current physical ticket books."

Haai jirre mense.
Rock bottom.
They're not even trying to bulls**t us anymore.
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This process is to eliminate corruption in the back-office !!!! Why do we have to pay-up for eliminating that. Lock them up!
The new number plates cannot be duplicated (for the first two weeks). Who pays for these new number plates?
Speed-cops cannot be bribed anymore (NOT)
Govment will supply everyone that cannot afford a smartphone with one to show his license (NOT)
Govment will not abuse any app supplied by them (tracking, recording & video, "law enforcement", association contacts)
Govment save money, not you
 
What will the cops check now, if you get rid of the disc?

They check fokall else at these so call road blocks
 
Considering it is supposedly easy to get fake/clone plates and added time for the "random" inspection, a paper disc is still a better tax token.

A disc is easy enough to read by the "inspector" when stopping, barely looking at the date.

Imagine now the dirty/greasy phone camera lense with the broken screen and no data has to read a qr/pdf417. It may work well in urban areas, but in more rural places where 4G is a challenge (2-3G are meant to be discontinued) and off course the system will also be down.

Change it to an MOT/TUV inspection and vehicles may actually be roadworthy, though that will likely also get corrupted at a rate.
 
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