{"id":99851,"date":"2025-08-11T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/?p=99851"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:52:50","slug":"afriforum-presses-gauteng-department-of-transport-to-disclose-costs-of-new-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/afriforum-presses-gauteng-department-of-transport-to-disclose-costs-of-new-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriForum presses Gauteng Department of Transport to disclose costs of new number plates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Louis-Boshoff_English.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Soundbite: Louis Boshoff (English)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AfriForum today lodged an internal appeal with the Gauteng Department of Transport after the civil rights organisation\u2019s application to obtain information on the proposed new number plates for the province was ignored. The Department did not respond to AfriForum\u2019s initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/afriforum-calls-for-clarity-on-new-number-plates-before-gauteng-residents-have-to-pay-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">application<\/a> in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) within the prescribed 30 days. AfriForum insists that the Provincial Department must disclose the proposed cost and associated re-registration costs of these number plates and announce the amount of time vehicle owners will have to replace their old number plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>AfriForum also wants to know what research is behind the claims that the new number plates, which contain additional safety features, will improve overall road safety. According to Louis Boshoff, Campaign Officer at AfriForum, no figures have been shared with the public on how many counterfeit number plates there are in the province and how many vehicles with counterfeit number plates are involved in crime. \u201cAs long as criminals can get away with driving without number plates on their vehicles, it will make no difference how good the required number plates are,\u201d explains Boshoff. \u201cSo, the solution lies in better law enforcement \u2013 not new gimmicks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The new number plates are a project driven by Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. These number plates have been installed on provincial government vehicles since June. It is assumed that this will be extended to the rest of the province\u2019s vehicles by December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThere are more than three and a half million vehicles in Gauteng. This means that the Premier wants to have around 7 million new number plates manufactured, but he is not even prepared to disclose how much it will cost \u2013 this is unacceptable,\u201d Boshoff concludes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soundbite: Louis Boshoff (English) AfriForum today lodged an internal appeal with the Gauteng Department of Transport after the civil rights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":96817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11177,11162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-affairs-media-statements","category-media-statements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":11177,"label":"Community Affairs Media statements"},{"value":11162,"label":"Media statements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/snelweg_hoofweg_N1_Gauteng_nommerplate_nommerplaat_unsplash-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum","author_link":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/author\/meganswart\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":11177,"name":"Community Affairs Media statements","slug":"community-affairs-media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11177,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":11162,"count":545,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":11177,"category_count":545,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Community Affairs Media statements","category_nicename":"community-affairs-media-statements","category_parent":11162},{"term_id":11162,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11162,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":2647,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":11162,"category_count":2647,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99857,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99851\/revisions\/99857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artikels.afriforum.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}