Chaos at the Road Accident Fund is clogging up South Africa’s legal system and worsening a self-induced financial crisis, writes TIM COHEN of Currencynews.co.za. Not only is its R8,3 billion backlog denying victims compensation, but thousands of execution orders against it are now choking the courts.
SOUTH AFRICA’s crisis-ridden Road Accident Fund (RAF) has thousands upon thousands of court execution orders against it, crippling the legal process and denying road accident victims compensation, interviews with sheriffs of the court have revealed.
The sheriff of the court for Johannesburg and Pretoria East, Marks Mangaba, said in an interview that in his regions alone, there are 4 200 warrants of execution outstanding.
South Africa’s sheriffs, who are responsible for executing court orders, say the RAF is by far their largest problem institution, and that the backlog of execution orders has been rising fast over the past few years. ..
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ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN
RAF is ‘a threat to the legal system’
Chaos at the Road Accident Fund is clogging up South Africa’s legal system and worsening a self-induced financial crisis, writes TIM COHEN of Currencynews.co.za. Not only is its R8,3 billion backlog denying victims compensation, but thousands of execution orders against it are now choking the courts.
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SOUTH AFRICA’s crisis-ridden Road Accident Fund (RAF) has thousands upon thousands of court execution orders against it, crippling the legal process and denying road accident victims compensation, interviews with sheriffs of the court have revealed.
The sheriff of the court for Johannesburg and Pretoria East, Marks Mangaba, said in an interview that in his regions alone, there are 4 200 warrants of execution outstanding.
South Africa’s sheriffs, who are responsible for executing court orders, say the RAF is by far their largest problem institution, and that the backlog of execution orders has been rising fast over the past few years. ..
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Tim Cohen
JournalistTim Cohen is a long-time business journalist, commentator and columnist. He is a senior editor at Currency.