Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo says he expects Driving License Testing Centres across the province to open on Tuesday.
This follows Monday’s meeting between striking driving school operators and the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) which operates the disputed online driving license system.
A number of these driving testing centres have been closed, some of them for weeks due to a strike by driving school operators.
In the video below, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula met with driving school owners:
The driving school operators wants the online driving license system to be scrapped.
They allege that it is not user friendly, and it adversely impacts their businesses.
Mamabolo says the parties will again convene on Wednesday where an agreement is expected to be signed.
“We can’t have this thing of always DLTCs being distabilized [and] operations [are] stopped. We need RTMC and driving schools as business people to put on the table a much more better way of doing things. We will put our proposal and I will plead with you – that let us wait for the meeting tomorrow. But the principled discussion is about a long lasting, sustainable solution that will bring peace and stability into the public transport space,” explains Mamabolo.
The audio clip below is the interview with National Driving School Association’s Lazarus Mokwena:
