South Africans suck at driving

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South Africans can't drive

South Africa has, for the second year in a row, ranked the world's most dangerous country to drive in, with reckless and drunken driving significantly contributing to the carnage on the country's roads.

This was revealed in Zutobi's The World's Safest and Most Dangerous Roads report. It also highlighted low seatbelt use in South Africa as a major contributor to road fatalities.
 
Why is self preservation not a thing? Why does bad driving globally not self regulate when number of accidents or death goes up?
 
“By which I mean that it’s strange that hundreds of thousands of 18-year-old licence applicants seem to know how to buy a licence, but SAPS and the Hawks don’t.”

Show me anything that SAPS or the Hawks know, then we can start from there.
Also, if they actually attempt to prosecute the guys selling licenses the entire system comes to a standstill because we're way past the "bad apple" point. Saw that happening first hand in Meyerton.

Even those who don't want to partake in the corruption gets force to because the alternative is never getting your license.
They'll keep failing people for ridiculous reasons until that person realises it'll be cheaper to pay the bribe or it'll be impossible to get their code-14 they desperately need if they don't

EDIT: Like I said, it's not some of them. It's all of them



‘A corrupt licensing official makes R6,000 by 10am daily’: RTMC boss raids Meyerton licensing centre​

 
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My sister-in-law always swore that Cairo was the most dangerous place to drive in, or even be a pedestrian in.

This was in the early '90s though. She may well have to change her mind now.
 
South Africa is problematic because it’s a mix of people trying to drive like they’re in the first world and people trying to drive like they’re in the third world. Once everyone embraces the fact that we're in the third world and stays calm when oncoming traffic is driving at 140km/hr in your lane at a blind rise, then it'll sort itself out.
 
Driving back from Randburg to Pretoria in the rain yesterday proves this point. And what's with not switich your lights on, you are not visible until someone is almost on top of you.

And not even just taxis, all types, and usually the darkest coloured cars couldn't be bothered.
 
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