Bad news for anyone trying to renew their car licence in South Africa

• Licence centres in South Africa have run out of the specialized secure paper needed to produce vehicle licence discs and registration documents, making it impossible for motorists to renew their licence discs.
• The shortage of secure paper is attributed to poor planning by the Department of Transport, with the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) CEO Wayne Duvenage stating that it's a symptom of a wider national dysfunction in the country's licensing system.
• Motorists are bearing the brunt of the system failures, with many having to take time off work and spend hours at licensing centres only to be turned away, prompting calls for the government to modernize the system to a digital format.