{"id":550250,"date":"2022-01-12T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=550250"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:59:04","slug":"you-will-soon-be-able-to-have-your-driving-licence-card-delivered-to-your-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/550250\/you-will-soon-be-able-to-have-your-driving-licence-card-delivered-to-your-door\/","title":{"rendered":"You will soon be able to have your driving licence card delivered to your door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transport minister Fikile Mbalula says his department is working on a number of updates for driver licences in South Africa, including the option to have a licence delivered directly to your home or office.<\/p>\n<p>In a media briefing on Wednesday (12 January), Mbalula said the Department of Transport also plans to begin accepting online payments for several services, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motor vehicle licence renewals;<\/li>\n<li>Driving licence card renewals;<\/li>\n<li>Learner\u2019s licence tests;<\/li>\n<li>Driving licence tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mbalula also <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/550132\/government-to-introduce-new-drivers-licence-in-south-africa-mbalula\/\">confirmed<\/a> that the government is considering a new smart driver licence card for the country, which will be presented to president Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s cabinet shortly.<\/p>\n<p>This will help address a growing backlog as approximately half a million South African motorists are stuck with expired driving licence cards because the twenty-year-old machine that prints them all has been out of order since November.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ONLINE PAYMENT COMING SOON<br \/>\nFor the following services:<\/p>\n<p>Motor vehicle licence renewal<br \/>\nDriving licence card renewal<br \/>\nLearner\u2019s licence test<br \/>\nDriving licence test<\/p>\n<p>You can also opt to get your driving licence card delivered at your doorstep. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7jGnVdeEr\">pic.twitter.com\/F7jGnVdeEr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIKILE MBALULA | MR FIX (@MbalulaFikile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MbalulaFikile\/status\/1481145537600663559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/550060\/government-launches-r1-1-billion-covid-fund-for-south-africas-taxis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government launches R1.1 billion Covid fund for South Africa\u2019s taxis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport minister Fikile Mbalula says his department is working on a number of updates for driver licences in South Africa, including the option to have a licence delivered directly to your home or office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":550280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-550250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550260,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550250\/revisions\/550260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}