OUTA heads to court to stop AARTO Phase 2 rollout
Early Breakfast with Africa Melane · 16 July 2026 · 11m
Speaker 1: Seven too early Breakfast with Africa Milani live streaming countrywide on Prime Media plus DearS Speaker 1: TV channel eight five. Speaker 2: Six ninety two point seven. Speaker 1: And one of six at them fourteen minutes nin ideas past five o'clock. Phase two Speaker 1: of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offenses that's R two, officially launched on the Speaker 1: first of July across sixty two municipalities in South Africa. It moves traffic fines into Speaker 1: a centralized administrative system rather than the criminal court system. The controversial demerit points system Speaker 1: is not active in this phase. Some municipalities and the South African Local Government or Speaker 1: Association raising concerns around, particularly the financing of aspects of R to phase two, but Speaker 1: it was gazetted anyway, quite late on the thirtieth of June, which meant it came Speaker 1: into law on the first of July. While the organization I'm doing Tax Abuse out Speaker 1: is taking government to court on the rollout of phase two. We're joined by its Speaker 1: executive director, Advocate Stefanie Peck. Stefani A very good morning. Why are you taking government Speaker 1: to courte on phase two of AR two? Speaker 2: Good morning Africa. I think it is about the ability to implement AR two. It's Speaker 2: less about whether we you know, whether we agree and whether ART is a constitutional Speaker 2: or not. That fight beforelready lost in the Constitutional Court. But this is about the Speaker 2: practical implementation of AR two. We believe that, like previously with the previous court pace Speaker 2: with sould not, that there are not really for AR two. And one of the Speaker 2: two reasons so…
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