The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has urged motorists who will be travelling over the Easter weekend to check the validity of their licence discs and driving licence cards and to renew them.

According to RTMC, the Natis system indicates that hundreds of thousands of vehicle licence discs and driving licence cards will be expiring at the end of March.

“700 399 vehicle licence discs will be expiring in this period and will need to be renewed,” the RTMC said.

The RTMC says this will affect 259 563 vehicles in Gauteng, 116 633 vehicles in the Western Cape, 98 735 vehicles in KwaZulu-Natal, 51 198 vehicles in Mpumalanga, 45 240 vehicles in Limpopo, 44 840 vehicles in the Eastern Cape, 36 335 in North West, 31 964 vehicles in Free State and 15 891 vehicles in Northern Cape.

“A total of 128 080 driving licence cards will be expiring in the same period and need to be renewed. This will affect 44 142 drivers in Gauteng, 20 188 drivers in KwaZulu-Natal, 17 108 in the Western Cape, 12 515 in Mpumalanga, 11 831 in Limpopo, 8 404 in the Eastern Cape, 6 187 in North West, 5 471 in Free State and 2 234 in Northern Cape.”

Motorists are advised to renew their vehicle licence discs in the comfort of their home or office by using the online.natis.gov.za website.

“The disc will be delivered within three to five working days. More than six million vehicle licence discs have been processed through this platform since it became available in 2022.

“Drivers based in Gauteng, Gqeberha and Karigan in the Eastern Cape can use the same platform to prebook a slot to renew driving licence cards, while drivers in other provinces can use the services at their driving licence centres,” the RTMC concluded.

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