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Alarm bells for driving licence renewals in South Africa

The Department of Transport has been advised that cancelling the smart card drivers’ licence tender could have dire consequences—with the current card printer on its last legs and a backlog in renewals growing since January. At the beginning of March 2025, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy initiated legal action to block the awarding of a contract for new printing driving licence printing machines following an investigation into the tendering process. Despite the investigation, City Press has reported that the Department of Transport’s lawyers have since advised against cancelling the tender. Advocate Adam Masombuka, the department’s chief director of legal service, said cancelling the R500 million smart card driver’s licence tender awarded to French company Idemia would have serious consequences. “It will lead to an interdict and a protracted review legal process that can take years, compared with appointing the preferred bidder.” The Auditor-General (AGSA) found that the tender was i...
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Gender Based Violence and Femicide March

WOMEN SPEAKS...

 19/072024. Wolmaransstad 

Gender Based Violence and Femicide March 

"Crime eventually will be the end of us all"

The Maquassi Hills, women today took to the Street to demand justice for the victims of GBV-F a scourge that slowly sleeps away our moral fibre as society, in the most recent weeks our town has experienced the brutal assassination of women by criminal elements and to the dismay of our people the perpetrators galavant our streets without any hope of restorative justice for the victims and mourning families, our society is so obnoxious to the failures of both the courts and the police to harmonize the situation and bring the perpetrators to book, the community had to rise in defense of our women and deposit a memorandum of demands to the local SAPS office to request that the due diligence takes its course in the recent misgivings that this thuggery characters has invoked in our women.

The demands gave the office 7 calendar days to effect a resound response to the people's cry, we are hoping for a positive outcome as our society is slowly off ramping from its own settings, of a peaceful and harmonica society wherein everyone is related to somebody...

We thank these individuals who saw fit to join this noble course...

Till we meet again on the seventh day!

Yours in the fight against criminality 

Cllr. Mzwandile Feliti 
Mayor Maquassi Hills Local Municipality 

Issued by the Corporate Communications Unit Maquassi HILLS LOCAL Municipality 


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