RAF In the News

Written by Roy Cokayne | Published on 18 July 2024 Adopting a different accounting standard saw the fund’s liabilities for outstanding claims plummet from R331bn to R34bn – and led to the AG issuing a disclaimer to its financial results. The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has been advised by new Deputy Minister of Transport Mkhuleko Hlengwa to use legislative reforms rather than “arbitrary changes in accounting standards” to achieve the necessary changes required by the fund. This was a reference to the governance issues facing the RAF related to its 2020/2021 annual financial results. The Auditor-General (AG) issued a disclaimer to these financial results because the RAF had adopted a different accounting standard, resulting in the fund’s liabilities for outstanding claims plummeting to R34 billion in 2022/23 from R331 billion in 2019/20. An application to the High Court in Pretoria to review and set aside the AG’s disclaimer and to

Written by Roy Cokayne | Published on 15 Jul 2024 Follows appeal by fund-appointed medical experts to Creecy for help getting hundreds of millions owed for their medico-legal reports. Governance at the Road Accident Fund (RAF) is something that has to be sorted out “as a matter of priority”, says newly-appointed Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy. “That is a matter that once I have settled, I will be giving my attention to,” she said on the sidelines of the Southern African Transport Conference in Pretoria last week. Creecy was responding to a question from Moneyweb about whether she would prioritise a letter written on behalf of a group of more than 70 medical experts to former minister of transport Sindisiwe Chikunga in June 2023, and a follow-up letter to Creecy last week for assistance in obtaining payment of hundreds of millions of rand allegedly owed to them by the RAF.

“The RAF was not going to change its mind, it had adopted a stance and was impervious to persuasion that it was wrong.”.. To read the article on TimesLive, click the button below: Read more

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Issued by Chris Hunsinger, DA Shadow Minister of Transport | Published on 12 April 2024 DA MP says management at Hospicare is scraping at the bottom of the barrel to fund patients’ basic needs. Victims of traffic accidents are facing additional distress because the Road Accident Fund (RAF) has failed to make payments to their healthcare provider, Hospicare. Already management is scraping at the bottom of the barrel to fund patients’ basic needs. Adding to the crisis, the DA can confirm that, Hospicare, which is currently unable to settle bills amounting to R21 million, has received an eviction notice from lawyers representing the building’s owner, President Ramaphosa. The crisis reflects the severe financial difficulties that led to the closure of Sunshine Hospital in Gauteng in April 2023, which also resulted from the RAF’s failure to disperse due payments. These healthcare facilities are vital. They enable the RAF to fulfil its

The high court in Pretoria has for the second time scrapped the Road Accident Fund’s (RAF’s) attempts to impose onerous new requirements on traffic accident victims seeking compensation from the fund. In a judgment handed down on Wednesday, a full bench ruled that a board notice and linked RAF1 form published in May 2022 setting out new requirements for lodging claims were unlawful and set them aside. The court ordered the transport minister to devise a new version within six months, and said claimants who had failed to meet these mandatory requirements could resubmit their claims using the simpler RAF1 form that was brought into effect in 2008. The ruling has wide-reaching implications, as tens of thousands of unsuccessful claimants may now have a second chance at securing compensation for their injuries…

Written by Tania Heyns | Published on 21 March 2024 Prokureurs in Gauteng wag so lank as vier jaar vir ʼn plek op die hofrol in die hooggeregshof vir sake wat verband hou met handelsreg of ʼn eis teen die Padongelukkefonds (POF). Dit is omdat daar klaarblyklik te min regters én hofsale is om sake aan te hoor. Verskeie Gautengse prokureurs het vandeesweek aan Maroela Media gesê dat hulle tans tot vier jaar lank vir ʼn verhoordatum in die Pretoriase hooggeregshof wag. Die waglys vir ʼn datum in die hooggeregshof in Johannesburg lyk nie veel beter nie. “Pretoria en Johannesburg is die twee besigste howe in die land. Die kort en die lank is ons het meer regters en howe nodig,” sê Tiaan Joubert, voorsitter van die Gautengse Prokureursvereniging en ondervoorsitter van die Pretoriase Prokureursvereniging. ʼn Betroubare bron, ʼn persoon wat verskeie vergaderings bygewoon het waartydens die probleem met Dunstan

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served the Road Accident Fund with a 48 hour notice to strike. We are mobilizing our members for a shutdown of all RAF offices on Thursday the 14th of March and on that day, we will march to the offices of the National Department of Transport in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of demands, to the minister of Transport to Sindisiwe Chikunga listing all the problems at the organization. We are demanding that RAF CEO Collins Letsoalo must be removed because of the disastrous state of the entity. RAF is a public entity whose core function is to compensate victims of road accidents.Mr. Letsoalo behaves as if he is untouchable which is why the RAF is in shambles. There is a complete failure to regulate his behaviour, and it seems even the board of the RAF is helpless in