News About Licencing in South Africa
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In order to drive in South Africa National Roads you will need to have a valid South African drivers licence. You can choose from different licence codes. Code 8, code 10 and 14, but now the government has changed them. About 5 years ago South Africa used to have paper or booklet drivers licence, but now converting your drivers licence to a card licence is a must.
Before you can obtain a drivers licence, you need to write a learners test. There a are number of reading materials available to prepare you for your learners licence test, like the learners self test of the K53 law. This you can find on the Internet and from various South African learners licence books. Driving schools also offer, courses on preparing people to get their learners licence. Why is it hard getting drivers licence these days?
Lately in South Africa there has been so much corruption of licence fraud, to the extend that people don't write the learners test or go for the actual testing because of the fraud. To that effect, Nebo testing station was closed off because of the licence fraud.
You can go to write your learners or do your drivers test in the following station Pretoria testing centres, Roodeport testing station, Springs and Sandton testing centres, Giyani and Itsoseng, or Newcastle testing centre. Please note these are just a few that I could mention in this article, but there should be a nearby testing centre where you live. There is a new system that the department of transport has implemented to make drivers licence renewals and car registration easy but the system which Enatis is totally going the wrong direction. Driving school in South Africa.
The latest news is again on our driving schools, how they may try to operate outside the law. But you as a learner driver, you can catch them out by looking for this acts that each driving school, must comply with....
Also find out how you can apply to be a driving school or driving instructor..