Aarto (the Bill on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) will certainly not combat lawlessness on our country’s roads as the Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, argues. On the contrary, it is just a recipe for even more chaos and bloodshed.
Aarto has already failed in Gauteng and the system has moved away from its initial objective of ensuring better policing of our roads with the aim of making them safer.
It has now become less of a criminal system and more of an administrative system and still it is failing due to, among other things, staff shortages at the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA). Additionally, courts that can adjudicate Aarto cases have not been established.
The biggest problem with Aarto is that it is a complex system and the country is not ready nor able to implement it.
Roads have not become safer, quite the opposite. Based on the answers provided to parliamentary questions that the FF Plus posed to the
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