EXPOSED: The SHOCKING BUNGLE that has left MILLIONS of South African drivers in LEGAL LIMBO and exposed a system ROTTEN to its core.
A bombshell High Court ruling has OVERTURNED a multi-million-rand tender, revealing a procurement process so corrupted officials IGNORED their own rules to push through a deal with scandal-plagued French firm IDEMIA. This isn’t just administrative failure—this is a DELIBERATE SABOTAGE of the public trust.
While Minister Barbara Creecy calls this a “vindication,” the TRUTH is far more sinister. The auditor-general uncovered a litany of illegal deviations: bid criteria IGNORED, site visits to the WRONG MACHINES, and a complete collapse of oversight. This is how YOUR tax money is spent—on a process so “unfair and non-transparent” it was deemed UNENFORCEABLE by a judge.
The human cost? A NATIONWIDE CRISIS. The entire driving licence system imploded because the state relied on a single, ANCIENT printer—a machine that has FAILED 160 times—while officials jetted off and bungled its replacement. Now, millions face expired licences due to backlogs CREATED by this incompetence.
This is the SAME company, Idemia, whose contract with Airports Company SA was cancelled amid allegations of wrongdoing. Yet OUR government pressed ahead. Why?
The so-called “interim solution” is a desperate scramble, outsourcing to other state departments while a cabinet committee debates a prototype. The entire infrastructure of legal driving identification rests on a hope and a prayer.
This is more than a broken printer; it is a BRUTAL METAPHOR for a broken state, where corruption and negligence strangle basic function while citizens are left holding the wreckage. If they can’t even procure a card printer, what ELSE is built on lies?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
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