Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences

The Department of Transport and the Road Traffic Management Corporation are reviewing South Africa’s current speed limits. The proposed review of speed limits comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act into law in August 2019 – introducing a new demerit system for South African drivers.

Speaking to the Weekend Argus, Department of Transport spokesperson Ayanda Allie-Paine said the proposal could see the baseline top speeds across the country’s roads reduced by 20km/h.

This would effectively drop the speed limit on the country’s highways from 120km/h to 100km/h, while the top speeds on main roads would drop from 100km/h to 80km/h.

Speeds in residential areas would decrease from 60km/h to 40km/h.

“Our road safety strategy has considered all these factors. Legislation is being reviewed to address and bring in place an edifice of various interventions to respond
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Stricter measures on the road will be introduced if this Bill is singed into law. The National Assembly has done its bit. Now it is up to President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign the controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Bill into law.

As reported by Business Tech, both Houses were in agreement that the Bill ought to be singed into law. It is now the responsibility of the president to decide if it will indeed serve its purpose, which is to fundamentally change the way South Africans drive.

Where will we see changes with the Aarto Bill?
Penalties on non-payment of traffic fines?

Once the new Bill becomes law, law enforcement will have the right to clamp down a lot harder on motorists who fail to pay their traffic fines.

Currently, motorists with unpaid traffic fines still enjoy the luxury of being on the road. This new law will more than likely restrict that, or at least make driving around with unpaid
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