• AARTO has less to do with road safety and more to do with money making 

• It infringes on the Constitutional rights of drivers and owners of vehicles in that fines posted or electronically emailed are deemed delivered 

• The fact that 50% of the fine and the admin fee go to the RTIA, meaning local municipalities will lose 50% of the income generated from fines. 

• The Tribunal that motorists countrywide can appeal to, will consist of just 9 people. We foresee a major backlog in dealing with infringements. 

• We foresee an increase in bribery & corruption to avoid demerit points.  

• The act could be used to force Gauteng motorists into paying e-Tolls. 

• The AARTO pilot project running in Johannesburg and Tshwane for the last 10 years has failed to improve road safety or decrease the number  of fatalities on the road 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has assented to and signed the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill, making it law. Implementation now awaits the law being gazetted with a commencement date.

“OUTA has opposed this Bill from the start and is now planning a constitutional challenge to it,” says Rudie Heyneke, OUTA Portfolio Manager on Transport. OUTA held a workshop to consult the industry on the Bill, made submissions to Parliament based on this and, after the Bill was passed by Parliament earlier this year, wrote twice to the President asking him not to sign it.

OUTA called for the Bill to be amended, due to concerns that it would not improve road safety, it is logistically cumbersome to the point of being potentially unconstitutional, and paves the way for corruption. The final version of the law does not take into consideration OUTA’s concerns.

Pilot projects in Tshwane and Johannesburg using this system over the past decade failed.

“The focus should be on road safety, not on an administratively complicated system aimed at collecting revenue,” says Heyneke.

The Act sets up a demerit system for drivers, who lose points for traffic offences, which may result in the loss of a driving licence.

OUTA is also concerned that the new Act will be used to force Gauteng motorists to pay e-tolls, by making it an offence to ignore road signs which could include those listing e-toll charges.

“We need solutions on road safety, but this isn’t one of them. We want to see a workable law,” says Heyneke. 

We will need public support to challenge this irrational policy that affects all motorists countrywide. Join Now to help us fight this FIGHT.  

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