US EditionAarto System Implementation Pushed to July Next Year After Concerns over Municipalities' Readiness
The rollout delay follows assessments showing untrained personnel and system mismatches across municipalities, affecting 69 initial rollout areas, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy said.
- On Tuesday, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy announced the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act rollout is postponed to 1 July 2026 from the planned 1 December 2025 start.
- A departmental review found law enforcement officials and back-office personnel not fully trained and municipal enforcement systems not harmonised, prompting the postponement.
- The phased rollout envisaged 69 municipalities first, while Phase 3 had been scheduled for 1 February 2026 for 144 municipalities.
- The postponement pushes the introduction back by at least seven months, and the department will soon publish a new proclamation with staggered dates while working with municipalities on a phased implementation approach.
- Historically, the rollout has been repeatedly postponed, including a Covid-19 delay to July 2020, with 9,288 public submissions and R545-million allocated to the Road Traffic Infringement Agency.
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AARTO demerit system delayed to July 2026
The implementation of South Africa’s Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act has been postponed once again, with the expanded rollout now delayed until July 2026, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy announced on Tuesday. The long-awaited demerit point system, intended to overhaul traffic law enforcement, was previously scheduled for phased rollout across 69 municipalities from December 2025, with full implementation set fo…
The spectre of AARTO still looms
Not unexpectedly, the rollout of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act has been postponed to 1 July 2026 due to the inadequate state of readiness of several municipalities that are part of the initial implementation phase. The Department of Transport will publish a new proclamation at a later date which will set out the updated staggered implementation dates. Only the dates of the planned phased out approach will b…
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