{"id":234689,"date":"2018-03-28T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=234689"},"modified":"2018-03-28T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:52:33","slug":"johannesburg-announces-plans-to-revamp-licence-centres-including-opening-on-saturdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/234689\/johannesburg-announces-plans-to-revamp-licence-centres-including-opening-on-saturdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Johannesburg announces plans to revamp licence centres – including opening on Saturdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Johannesburg has announced plans to revamp the city’s licensing centres.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> <\/strong>issued on Tuesday (27 March), Johannesburg’s MMC for Public Safety Michael Sun said that these efforts would include the extension of operating hours to include Saturdays.<\/p>\n

“This means that customers can now visit most of the City operated licensing centres on Saturdays between 8 AM and 12 PM for the renewal of driving licences, vehicle disc licences, register motor vehicles, book driver\/learner test, and other relevant services,” Sun said.<\/p>\n

He added that the extended hours would hopefully see the reduction of long queues, backlogs and turn-around times in these centres.<\/p>\n

“We have received numerous service related complaints at our licensing centres and it is high time that we improve services to the level that our customers deserve,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The high volumes of customers visiting our licensing centres means that we need to be innovative and upgrade our centres, we want our customers to get a corporate service as paying customers would expect anywhere else.”<\/p>\n

Other measures Sun said that his department would be tackling include the removal of unwanted ‘touts’, as well as the introduction of a new customer service experience.<\/p>\n

Sun added that\u00a0the City of Johannesburg’s Public Safety department’s social media pages will be updated shortly to indicate which centres will be open on Saturdays.<\/p>\n

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