licence fraud

In a landmark action aimed at cleansing South Africa’s traffic administration, the Department of Transport (DoT), following investigations by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), cancelled an astonishing 190,503 drivers’ licences in 2025. This mass invalidation comes after years of endemic fraud and maladministration were uncovered at numerous Driving Licence Testing Centres (DLTCs) across the country. …

A syndicate operating at a driver testing station in Delmas was dismantled on Monday during a raid by the Road Traffic Management Corporation’s National Traffic Anti-Corruption Unit and the Hawks. Three officials and two middlemen were arrested and charged with the alleged fraudulent issuing of motor vehicle driver’s licences. “It is alleged that the middlemen …