Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

Media statements

10-year driving licences: Have your say on draft amendments, says AfriForum

ByAfriForum 18/08/202618/08/2026

Louis Boshoff (English)

AfriForum encourages members of the public to comment on the proposed amendments to the National Road Traffic Regulations 2000, which were gazetted on 17 August. The proposed amendments extend the validity period of some driving licence cards from five to ten years and specify how this decision will be implemented. There is now opportunity to comment on the transitional arrangements and on certain terms of the new validity period.

The publication of these draft regulations follows Cabinet’s decision on 29 July that the validity period of driving licences should be extended to ten years. This, in turn, followed years of public pressure by AfriForum and other organisations for this extension. On 30 July AfriForum also called on the Department of Transport to implement Cabinet’s decision as soon as possible.

According to Louis Boshoff, AfriForum Spokesperson, it is important that there should not be any errors in the amended regulations. “The public has been yearning for licences with extended validity periods for a long time, so government must now ensure that no technical defects in the regulations lead to any further delay of the implementation of this decision. This is why AfriForum urges members of the public to submit informed comments on the draft regulations,” explains Boshoff.

The draft regulations are available at the following link. Comments can be submitted to CommentsNRTR@dot.gov.za within 30 days. AfriForum is also preparing full comments which will be made public.

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