STILL INSURED IF YOUR DRIVER’S LICENCE EXPIRES?

With South Africa’s driver’s license card printing machine in for repairs and hold-ups in renewing licences, drivers are worried that driving without a valid licence will affect their car insurance. However, insurers are lenient with policyholders whose licence has expired. Ricardo Coetzee, head of Auto & General Insurance, says: “If you do not have a valid driver’s licence at the time of the loss, but this was as a result of an administrative process that is beyond your control, as now experienced by many members of the public, then the expired licence will not impact a claim.”