AA: Govt must be transparent about new licence printing equipment

Earlier this month, the Transport Department said it's on track to produce smart card driving licences and find suitable service providers. 

It was meant to start printing them two months ago but experienced delays. 

The association's Layton Beard feels the department should openly discuss the challenges it's facing and how it plans to resolve them.

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He says they want to know why printing specialists, Government Printing Works which manufactures passports and visas, weren't involved in the process. 

“'The GPW has proven technical expertise to print cards such as these as it already prints the national ID cards that are used by millions of South Africans.

“For us not involving the GPW seems counterproductive as an organ of state, the Department of Transport is bypassing another organ of state to go to tender."

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