• Mark Hollander writes:
I went to the Krugersdorp Licensing Department this morning (Tuesday, October 26) to see if my PrDP licence had arrived. They asked for identification so I handed them my driver’s licence as proof of identity, and they took it to the back or wherever they went.
I waited for some time (approximately 15 minutes) to the side while they attended to other people. After they had attended to the people they looked at me and asked what I was waiting for. I informed them I was waiting for them to give me my PrDP licence, to which they asked for my ID number.
I gave it to them, they looked it up on the computer system and informed me it’s not ready yet. So I asked them for my licence back. I may as well have sworn at them because they reacted as if I had accused them of stealing and insisted that I had not given them my licence.
A long story short, I had to leave as they could not find it and were getting very angry about it. I have been waiting for almost three months now for that licence to arrive.
I had to leave without a licence and now have to go through the process of getting a temporary licence till the PrDP licence arrives, which at the moment looks like never.
So in one morning the Licensing Department turned me from being a law-abiding citizen to a law-breaking citizen, and given the processes and hoops that one has to jump through it’s probably going to take weeks if not months to become legal again, not to mention the amount of fines that I may receive due to this incompetence.
The Licensing Department is going downhill fast and they are making it harder and harder for citizens to be law-abiding.
