Mbalula presenting plans for new licence card and revising five-year expiry to cabinet

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South Africa's plan for digital driver's licence cards

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula has revealed that he is ready to present his proposal for a new digital driver's licence card to cabinet ministers.

He said the proposal includes re-looking at the five-year validity period that currently applies to South African driver's licence cards, adding that an announcement would be made once it passes cabinet.
 
What an idiot.. Couldn't twiddle his own thumbs even if he tried..
 
Nereus77 said:
10 years for a drivers license to expire, I can support that.
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A lot of people support this, which is why the ANC will make sure it doesn't happen. They seem to love looking at what people want, and then doing the complete opposite.

Nereus77 said:
Another drivers license card design? Why, the current one is okay...?
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My guess is because the machine they use for the current cards is out of date and they only have 1 of them. So they can't buy a 2nd one to keep up with demand, and can't get replacement parts when it breaks. The only option they have is to buy a new machine (or two, or three) that makes different cards.

Given how Mbalula kept saying how we are 10 years behind the rest of the world, it makes me think they are going to buy a 10 year old machine from another country which is deprecating it in favour of something else, and Fikile smells a kickback bargain, and as he notes, he won't be a minister in 10 years time when this already deprecated machine breaks down so its not his problem.
 
But what happens when the one server holding the data for the digital licenses goes down and needs to be sent to Cuba for repairs?
 
duckgray said:
Naturalized citizens not born in ZA cannot get the ID card for some stupid reason. You have to be born in ZA to get it.
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Is there some time limit to this or does it not apply to immediate neighboring countries or something..?

I was born in Namibia and we moved to SA when I was around 3 months old and I had no hassles getting my ID card.. asked me no questions when I went to apply and two weeks later it was ready for collection..
 
Would be great if 10 year validity is implemented from September when my license card expires and I don't have to do this again in 5 years..
 
Mystic Twilight said:
You never heard a gov employee telling you "eish the system is offline"?
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The system is offline because you have quota IT engineers running it. Had this issue at many health facilities I worked at.

Hard fact. All these people are selected into fields they don't have the skills but were passed and ended up being certified/qualified. I had to train assistants and interns who simply didn't have the intellect to be in the field. These people are unemployable and hence they sit in government where jobs are reserved for them.

The amount of students that applied and got rejected by private sector for training simply because they didn't meet the mathematics requirements all go to government who use them as free labour. When you training them and you fail them because they simply cannot cope in the field they label you as racist. Then when the department reviews it actually does appear to be racist on paper because only the BEE students are failing. What they don't consider is that everyone else has to work 5 times harder to get the same opportunity.

That's why the system is offline. That's why government is so incompetent in its departments.

When I was working in the DOH the patients used to swear at us for being slow because what they would see was about 20 people working inside what they didn't realise was only 5 of us were qualified the rest were students. From those students maybe only about 10% of them deserve to be there.

And before the BEE people come try and start a fight. Yes I did enjoy working for the DOH what was frustrating was baby sitting people who didn't have the skillset for the position they had.
 
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