'South African drivers, beware! Scammers are issuing fake traffic fines to catch you off guard! Always use AARTO approved collecting agents for your payments.' (Road Traffic Infringement Agency) The national rollout of AARTO ( Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) has again been postponed, this time to July 2026. Speculation is that we now won’t see the demerit system implemented before the middle of 2027, but both dates remain provisional until gazetted. Non

'Forewarned is forearmed.' (Wise old proverb) Government keeps assuring us that the long-delayed AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) system will finally begin its full national rollout on 1 December 2025. Is this another false start or the real thing this time? There have been so many false starts to AARTO over the last fifteen years that many of us will no doubt take the attitude 'I’ll believe it when I see it'… Particularly with all the speculation