DEAR Editor;
The picture I have submitted was taken from my car at the Scottburgh Licensing Office on Wednesday, January 27 at 7am.
It shows a small part of the queue of people lined up to pay their annual car license fees.
The office is supposed to open at 7.30am.
A dozen or so chairs are provided, but the majority of supplicants have to stand, hopefully socially-distantly, in the sun or rain as they obediently spend their morning waiting to part with their R800 or so to be issued a new disc.
You can’t pay your exorbitant road tax online, by post, through your bank’s ATM, or even at your post office or police station.
You have to abide by the bureaucratic diktat and join a ‘Covid-crowd’ at the ratty little municipal office.
For 40-odd years I used to receive a reminder through the post.
I’d send it back with a cheque and invariably receive the new disc about two weeks before the due date. Simple, clean and efficient.
Now you don’t even get a reminder – nor do they fix the potholes.
Is this the 21st Century? Is this Batho Pele?
Is this in any way compliant with the Covid regulations? Why do we tolerate this?
PETER VOS
Scottburgh South
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