The Department of Transport has gazetted new rules allowing expired driving licences to be used as valid forms of identification in South Africa, provided certain conditions are met. This has come as the country continues to deal with a massive backlog in printing new cards caused by repeated breakdowns of its only licence card printer. According to the notice published on Friday, 26 September 2025, motorists whose licences have expired will have a three-month grace period during which their expired card remains valid, as long as they can prove they applied for a new one before it expired. This is not a new concession but part of standard procedure, as highlighted previously by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), which informed drivers that their licence remains valid for three months if renewal is done on time. To make use of this grace period, drivers must carry both their expired licence card and the official receipt showing that they have applied for renewal...
In 2012 the Department of Transport implemented a New Computerized Learners License test with the purpose to combat any fraud and corruption in the old system at driver’s license testing stations and driving schools. Some testing stations are on the computerized system and there are still a few that does the old written learners test.
The biggest difference between the old and the new system is that the old Learners License test is a theoretical pen and paper test. With the old written test there are fewer questions to study. (+- 200 questions in total) This makes the study time shorter and the test easier to pass.
With the New Computerized test there are more or less 1800 possible variations of questions on a rotating loop system. Studying can be a bit more challenging.
You will need to have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the road rules, signs and vehicle controls in order to pass the test. Both these test will have a total of 68 questions. The first 4 questions will be examples. (2 rules and 2 signs) After that you will have 64 questions to answer of witch 28 will be rules of the road, 28 signs of the road and 8 vehicle controls.
In order to pass the test you will need at least 23/28 on the road rules, 22/28 on the road signs and 6/8 on the vehicle controls.
For the computerised test since it is on a computer, the questions can be easily randomised that means there is more possibility for question variation than a written test, therefore you would need to study harder/smarter if you live in a province with computerised learners license tests.
In the computerized learners test there are some unusual questions that you would not have gotten in the writing learners test, that wil make your mind spin.
Be Prepared For Your Learner’s License Test
Go through practice papers to familiarize yourself with the type of questions that can be asked
Repeat the signs, car controls and road markings as you observe them on the road or when you sitting in the car
Each question has at least three multiple choice answers from which to select the correct answer. For some questions only one answer is the correct one while for others there may be more than one option is correct and you must specify which they are.
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