Time is running out and there is only a week left until the end of the licence renewal grace period.

Motorists, whose license cards expired during the hard lockdown, have only a few days left, in which to renew their licences.

Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula said the deadline, for those whose licence cards expired between 26 March 2020 and 31 August 2021, will not be extended again. He confirmed that the country currently has a backlog of 1.3-million expired licence cards that have yet to be renewed.

Drivers’ licence offices will, for the next few days, be open for an extra two hours daily. This is in a bid to allow motorists to renew their licences before the 5th of May cut-off date.

Mbalula yesterday says several measures have been implemented at traffic offices to assist those, whose licences expired between 26 March 2020 and 31 August 2021, renew their licence cards in time.

Mbalula says offices will also be open on weekends, on both Saturdays and Sundays.