Tag: Road Accident Fund
RAF achieves unprecedented milestone
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has achieved a significant reduction in administrative costs of more than R7 billion in the 2020/2021 financial year, says Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula.
Highlighting progress that has...
Road Accident Fund – ‘a travesty’
Catastrophic incompetence – Transport Minister reveals bankrupt RAF has a R49.9-bn backlog and 45 000 claims stretching unpaid for more than 10 years.
THE Personal Injury Plaintiff Lawyers Association (PIPLA) is the latest...
Claims backlog to cost Road Accident Fund R49.9bn
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) is saddled with about 45 000 claims that await settlement for a period that ranged between five and 10 years as at last October.
The cash-strapped RAF...
Bid to expedite Road Accident Fund bill
Parliament’s portfolio committee on transport has indicated it wants the Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill passed urgently and before South Africans head to the polls.
Chairperson of the committee Dikeledi Magadzi on...
Road Accident Fund replacement will also compensate guilty drivers
Drunk and negligent drivers who cause death or serious injury ‘will receive benefits at the expense of their victims, who will get much smaller pay-outs’.
Despite negligence and drunk driving being the...