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Drivers to lose points for offences

Tshwane drivers will permanently lose points for traffic offences when the new licence demerit is tested in the city.

On Friday departmental director-general Mpumi Mpofu said the piloting of the system in Tshwane would mean residents in the city would enter the system first.

But, he said, there would not be "a huge lapse" between the Tshwane operation and the roll-out across the whole country.

Mpofu was speaking at a two-day transport lekgotla involving Transport Minister Jeff Radebe, provincial transport MECs and chairperson of transport agencies.

Transport department spokesperson Collen Msibi had said in August that during the pilot period the points demerit system would not count, because the rest of the country would not be on the points system.

Msibi said the system would be rolled out across the country about 18 months after Tshwane.

Tshwane Metro Police spokesperson Mel Vosloo said at the time that the transport department would first train a core group of officers to be deployed on the project.

The training, scheduled to start in January, would take about six months. The officers would be deployed in July if the eight-year-old project was rolled out as planned.

The Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) system has been on the back-burner since the Act was passed eight years ago.

The system, to be managed by the Road Traffic Infringement Agency, is designed to remove routine traffic offences from overcrowded court rolls.

Drivers will be able to check any offences against their names and to pay off fines easily.

The system forms part of the Road Safety Strategy, which Radebe said on Friday had been approved at the lekgotla and would involve tougher law enforcement on public transport, pedestrians and cyclists.

Radebe said a system of driver re-training and testing after serious smashes or repeat violations would be introduced to deal with lawlessness on South Africa's roads and reduce road fatalities.

The declaration of traffic enforcement as an essential service would be investigated.

This would enable officers to work during evenings and weekends, which is when most accidents occurred.

Extra traffic enforcement personnel would be employed to improve the visibility of officers, Radebe said.