Following a number of fraud and corruption incidents on learner and driver’s licences recorded in the province’s testing centres, the North West MEC for Human Settlements, Public Safety and Liaison, Nono Maloyi officially launched the second Computerised Learner and Driving License Centre in the Ramotsheremoiloa Municipality in a bid to eliminate the number of such cases.
In his address during the opening of the centre in Lehurutshe, MEC Maloyi said that the system is difficult to manipulate and that it gives the department an advantage as it will be difficult for corrupt learners and officials to acquire examination questions before.
“The system is computerised and further prevents possibility of leaking questions before the actual learner driver test. The system it is also preventing corrupt examiners from assisting learners and only the registered applicant may write the test as they are identified through fingerprints, said Maloyi.”
According to MEC, there is a provision for registered applicants who are computer illiterate. “We have also catered for those who are computer illiterate as they will still be examined manually, but under a constant and serious monitoring,” he said.
The MEC further warned that the government can no longer afford to have more road carnages due to unscrupulous drivers.
He said more than 14 000 people are dying on South African Roads every year and the government is losing over R50 billion annually due to road accidents. “This is a starting point to eliminate loss of life on our roads, he said”
The programme was firstly launched in the Rustenburg driver’s licence testing centre and it is planned to be rolled out throughout the province.
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MEC Nono Maloyi eliminates fraud and corruption at the Driver’s license testing centres in the province
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