What Are We Doing About the Situation at Rooderpoort Testing station?
Rooderpoort as we speak is piled up with people looking for bookings, both learners and drivers licence.
I did my drivers licence in Rooderpoort on the 07 of July in 2006, that was when we could still book through the call centre. After the driving had charged me R100 for them to book for the only place they could find available was Rooderpoort, when I went o pay, there was a long queue but it was managed, because I got there at 9:55 am and left at 12:45. Which was not bad, but I didn't see it that way, I was just glad that I got a booking.
On the actual day of the driving, it was empty, you could do what ever you came for and leave, but there is something strange I have noticed about this testing centres, the offline and online thing. The truth about driving schools in South Africa
On the day I went to secure my booking in Rooderpoort they were offline, in that case every one had to wait, or come back another day to secure the booking or pay whatever it needed to be paid. NEW Licence System at the end of the month
What happened on the 14 of February in Rooderpoort testing centre
Because Rooderpoort is not taking any more bookings through the call centre, people now have to go directly to the station to book personally.
One of my friends Tumi* arrived there at 6:30 in the morning only to find that the queue was even longer than she thought, it was going out of the testing station to the road. On the queue she found out she found out that the gut in front of her was number 103, and take into consideration that the station is only taking 150 bookings. Now Tumi* thought it was going to be worth standing in the sun and waiting to be cut off, I 'm really they are not going to take 150 people, because the call centre doesn't even take 15 people. People in the Roodepoort testing centre wake up as early as 3:00 am just to stand on the queue and get their bookings. Read more about what South Africans have to say about the department of transport fiasco.
Now South Africa you tell me, is that the way things should be?....




