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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...
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Computerized learners licence System fails learners


Writing a test to obtain a learner’s licence at the DLTC is causing confusion to some of the applicants, because the computerized system fails them when they think they should pass. 

Not one of these computerized tests are the same.
The computer shuffles the 1 500 questions and gives a new questionnaire every time a learner has to write a test.

There are three compulsory categories the applicant has to complete.

The system allows the applicant to make six mistakes in the rules of the road category, therefore, they should have a minimum of 22 correct answers out of the 28 questions.

In the road signs category, the applicant needs to have 23 correct answers for the 28 questions, allowing five mistakes.
In the third category, road controls, the system allows only two mistakes.

The applicant may not make all 13 mistakes overall and expect the system to give them a pass.

If the applicant made no mistakes in the first category but fails the other two, it means the seven mistakes will cause the system to give a fail message to the applicant.

if the entire class fails, it means they did not meet the requirements stipulated to pass a learner’s licence.

An application fee of R126 is required for all applicants and an additional issuing fee of R126

To assist the applicants, go to www.enatis.com, click on download and select the appropriate learner’s driver’s material.

This system works much better than the previous handwritten tests but the problem is there is many new questions that was added and there is not proper study material for this, the manuals that can be downloaded on the enatis website is only in English and does not give guidance that can help a student to fully understand what is needed to know for the test.

The new computerized learners test is very tricky now as what the hand written test was with the hand written test there was +-270 questions and was easier to remember now there is 1500 questions and now you should learn much more and have to remember more and that can be difficult because you will not know what you will be asked.

There is also allot of unusual questions in the new computerized learners test that are confusing students 

Since the new system started the pass rate of learners passing is about 60% 








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