On Tuesday 18 March 2025, the Deputy Minister of Transport announced that the Department of Transport will withdraw the RAF amendment Bill.
The relevance of this announcement is that the RAF 2020-2025 Strategic Plan, on the basis of which their current “Operating Model”, has now been rendered obsolete.
The focus of the Strategic Plan was “to transform the RAF into a sustainable entity through system modernisation, improved governance, and enhanced service delivery, with a key target of settling all new claims within 120 days”.
The RAF “turn around” strategy proved to be a dismal failure with money and resources spent on promoting an unlawful regime with little or no interest in promoting the interests of road crash victims, entirely focused on the implementation of the Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill, which has now been correctly withdrawn by the Department of Transport.