GAUTENG TO GET NEW NUMBER PLATES

The Gauteng Provincial Government has announced that the province will be getting new smart number plates.

The new number plates will be part of a pilot project that will last for six months.

According to the Gauteng Province Department of Roads and Transport, the new number plates will be secure, traceable and smart.

In a statement, the Department said “the system is expected to strengthen the vehicle registration and law enforcement landscape, eradicating the use of cloned or fraudulent number plates, and facilitate interoperability with Southern African Development Community systems, amongst others”.

The new number plate design will feature the South African national flag, the country’s name and its United Nations country code, ZA.

The pilot was meant to finish on 31 March 2025 already, but it never launched on time. Local government missed their initial deadline but didn’t comment on the matter.

According to Top Auto, it’s unclear whether the new six-month project is an additional pilot phase to the one that was meant to begin in November 2024, or if that phase is only beginning now.

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