{"id":916511,"date":"2022-01-15T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/15\/cape-town-validated-after-aarto-declared-unconstitutional-says-jp-smith\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T13:14:27","slug":"cape-town-validated-after-aarto-declared-unconstitutional-says-jp-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/cape-town-validated-after-aarto-declared-unconstitutional-says-jp-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town validated after Aarto declared unconstitutional, says JP Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f1916734-d06f-583d-b773-8b635bc4442a&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=1x0&#038;resize=618x348.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; The City of Cape Town is validated in their concerns following the Pretoria High Court declaring the Aarto legislation as unconstitutional and invalid, the City\u2019s Mayco Member for Safety and Security JP Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith says the City has consistently expressed their concerns around Aarto &#8211; which took more than two decades to implement &#8211; revolving around two main points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that it was in conflict with the local government mandate around traffic enforcement,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>And \u201caround its functionality and that it would be ineffective in curbing road deaths,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the ruling by Judge Basson on Thursday validated the City\u2019s concerns when it ruled AARTO legislation \u2018unlawfully intrudes upon the executive and legislative competency of local and provincial governments,\u2019 according to Smith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa), who brought the matter to court in October 2021, shared the views of Cape Town\u2019s administration around the legislation&#8217;s ineffectiveness in dealing with road deaths,  previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOuta believes that Aarto in its current format does nothing to improve road safety, nor does it reduce the scourge of road fatalities in South Africa,\u201d Outa\u2019s Advocate Stefanie Fick was quoted as saying after the Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, on behalf of the City\u2019s administration, believes there should be greater consequences to deal with lawlessness on South Africa\u2019s roads, but Aarto was not the solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The City of Cape Town advocates for (as a starting point):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speedier prosecutions for serious driving offences<\/li>\n<li>More significant sentences<\/li>\n<li>Permanent impoundments of vehicles used in serious driving offences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; The City of Cape Town is validated in their concerns following the Pretoria High Court declaring the Aarto legislation as unconstitutional and invalid, the City\u2019s Mayco Member for Safety and Security JP Smith said. Smith says the City has consistently expressed their concerns around Aarto &#8211; which took more than two decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}