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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.