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/ 4 February 2022

Driver’s licence pile-up ‘12 months long’

By Eunice Masson
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Stop sign: South Africa’s only machine that prints driver’s licence cards had to be sent to Germany to be repaired

Court battles, Covid-19 restrictions and an ageing machine has resulted in a backlog of 1.4 million driver’s licence cards waiting to be issued

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