Gauteng’s smart licence centres promise faster renewals and reduced corruption.
A DANGEROUS NEW EXPERIMENT is being rolled out across Gauteng, as the provincial government quietly installs high-tech “smart centres” designed to TRACK, MONITOR, and CONTROL every aspect of your driving life. Under the guise of “reducing corruption” and “improving safety,” these cashless, appointment-only facilities represent a TOTAL SURRENDER of privacy and freedom to a surveillance state.
MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela brags that renewals now take “10 minutes,” but at WHAT COST? Citizens are being funneled into a seamless, cashless system FULLY INTEGRATED with the national eNatis database, creating a perfect digital trail for government overreach. The promise to eliminate “runners” is a thinly veiled attack on the informal economy that countless citizens rely on for survival.
Even more SHOCKING is the aggressive expansion into townships like Umphakathi and Protea Glen. Critics are sounding the alarm that this is not about “service delivery,” but about BRINGING THE STATE’S WATCHFUL EYE directly into underserved communities under the pretense of inclusion. The department claims this “supports road safety,” but the REAL agenda is total compliance and data harvesting from populations already struggling under systemic neglect.
This is not modernization—it’s a chilling leap towards a society where every movement and transaction is logged, approved, and controlled by the authorities. The government isn’t solving corruption; it’s ENGINEERING A SYSTEM WHERE DISOBEDIENCE IS IMPOSSIBLE. Soon, the question won’t be if your license is valid, but if YOU are valid in their system.



