Covid-19: Essential service workers will soon be able to renew driver’s and vehicle licences

Among the directives announced by Minister of Transport, Fikile Mabalula in a Covid-19 level 4 lockdown briefing on May 1 are that driver’s licence and vehicle testing centres, as well as driving schools will be permitted to operate but with restrictions.

Driver’s licence testing centres and vehicle testing centres will gradually re-open for essential service workers to renew their driver’s and vehicle licences.

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The opening of the Driver’s Licence Testing Centres (DLTC) will be staggered once inspection and verification of the state of readiness are done at all of them. The Metro-based DLTCs will open first, from June 1.

“We will issue directions to limit the daily number of people that can be attended to while restricting bookings to online platforms,” said the minister.

Driving schools will also be permitted to resume their activities subject to effective social distancing and sanitising measures. Both the instructor and the learner must wear face masks at all times.

Also, people whose vehicles are at a mechanic for repairs or service may arrange to get them back if the vehicles are to be used for essential service purposes, according to the Director-General of Transport, Alec Moemi.

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