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We invite you to keep abreast of the latest updates on the Road Accident Fund’s New Strategy.
In 2020, Collins Letsoalo, Acting CEO of The Road Accident Fund (RAF) introduced a new strategic plan that involved moving away from litigation to claims management. This strategy had been adopted as, according to Letsoalo, “the current operating model has left the RAF unsustainable”. Moving forward, the priority is early investigation and settlement of claims within 120 days.
We’ve kept a collection of audio clips, video and news articles for you to keep abreast of RAF’s new strategy.
Road Accident Fund faces plethora of legal challenges, claims
Written by Zelda Venter | Published Jan 5, 2023 Pretoria – A Constitutional Court challenge against practice directives which place hurdles in the way of the public claiming against the Road Accident Fund (RAF), an application to have specified medical tariffs overturned, and the possibility of the fund’s executives, being personally slapped with legal costs in two cases are but a few of the vows facing the RAF this year. Apart from the plethora of claims instituted by road accident victims, which daily filled the court rolls last year, the fund also faced various legal challenges regarding its operations. And this year will be no different. The high court in Mpumalanga is expected to deliver its judgment within the first court term on whether the fund’s CEO Collins Letsoalo and some of the senior management should personally be held liable for the legal costs in two cases.The RAF was in
Teenager Mmakgoshi Edith Molala involved in accident waits 12 years for justice
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – Nearly 13 years ago, a teenager was about to start her matric year when she was a passenger in a car which was involved in an accident. Mmakgoshi Edith Molala, who was 17 in January 2008 when the accident occurred, waited more than 12 years for justice. At first, she lodged her claim directly with the Road Accident Fund (RAF). Nothing came of it, and the fund later told her the claims had expired. Seven years later, an attorney took up her case, resulting in a judge recently ordering that she receive more than R8-million from the RAF. Long-Term Impact of Severe Accident Injuries Molala sustained a severe head injury with facial scarring that resulted in mood disturbances, memory and concentration difficulty, personality and behavioural changes as a result of her injuries. She was at the time hospitalised for more than a month. Shortly after