27 August 2020 - 05:00Claiming from RABS would not have required proof of who caused a vehicle accident. Picture: REUTERS
Last week, the Portfolio Committee on Transport in parliament rejected the contentious RABS bill, which was mooted to replace the bankrupt Road Accident Fund . Also, victims would have been required to negotiate a cumbersome and complex administrative process on their own because RABS sought to exclude road accident victims’ rights and access to legal representation, she says.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni and transport minister Fikile Mbalula were both proponents of the RABS bill, saying the RAF fuel levy was not enough to match the fund’s liability which as of March 2020 stood at R324bn.
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