New Number Plates for SA vehicles.. again!

[Pine]

From the www

NATIONAL NEWS - Vehicle owners will soon have to go through yet another round of number plate upgrades to stay on the right side of the law.

In a document of the Department of Transport, which appeared in the Government Notice of January 2015 guidelines were set out for the implementation of new number plates for vehicles registered in South Africa.

This topic has now resurfaced after Arrive Alive tweeted a reminder to the public that these new plates will come into use in 2017.

According to the Department of Transport’s notice the number plates will have the following features:

• All number plates will be made from aluminium with embossed lettering.
• South African Bureau of Standards certification mark will appear on the bottom right below the licence mark of the province.
• A four-dimensional bar code with a QR code will appear on all number plates.
• The abbreviated name of the manufacturer of the blank number plate will appear to the right bottom of the dividing line.
• A unique number.
• The plates will be black for public transport vehicles, blue for general vehicles, police and personalised number plates, red for government vehicles or green for diplomatic vehicles.
• The South African national flag will appear on the top left of the number plate before the dividing line.
• the allocated licence number and the licence mark of the respective province will be at the end.

[retrovan]

Ohw Jaaaaaj !!!!!!

Wat fun....

Herman

[freddiebooysen]

Urghhh Ugly i think

[Dawie]

Just checked the date... and it is'nt 1st of April?

Previous change was to have numberplates riveted/permanently mounted to make them more difficult to remove.

[Tony Z]

its a pity the number plate guys dont know this. I just had plates made and they arent anything like what is described above.
Not to mention the joy of people stealing plates and selling them for scrap

I think this is another money making scheme

[didi]

Johannesburg - South Africa’s number plates are not changing - and that’s official.

The Department of Transport has not made a determination, published any notice, or issued a public statement regarding the so-called new number plates.


An example of the so-called new number plates.
According to a “Government Gazette” doing the rounds on the internet since last week, the new number plates will be introduced in 2017.

However, departmental spokesman Ishmael Mnisi distanced the department from the notic, saying the department did not plan to replace the number plates with standard designs.

“The document that has been doing the rounds is not authentic, and neither has the department made a determination to the effect reflected therein,” he said.

Mnisi said the source of the document would be investigated and action taken against them.

http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry- ... nt-2055647

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[Tony Z]

Nice, thanks Didi

[eben]

In Slovakia vehicle registrations, and manufacturing/issuing of number plates are only done by the Police.
When you de-register you car for any reason, even temporarily, you have to return the number plates to the Police.

[jolas]

Oh well it seems that we are in fact going to have to change number plates in the near future ........ someone in govt got it wrong somewhere along the line - what a joke this is becoming

[Jdt1976]

Many vehicles drive with false plates. I got this speeding fine for one of my trucks. If the law was enforced to show your reg papers when buying a plate this will not happen.

This happens often.


Imagine this truck doing 154km/h