Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA)

The mission of the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) is to encourage: compliance with road traffic laws in South Africa through targeted road user community education and communication programmes; promotion of procedurally fair, lawful and reasonable administrative adjudication; levying of penalties; imposing of demerit points; effective administration and management of the suspension and cancellation of driving licences and operator cards; and rewarding of compliant road users.

The Agency’s strategic outcome-orientated goals are to: discourage and penalise contravention of road traffic laws; encourage payment of penalties; create public awareness and education; administrate and resource the RTIA; and roll-out the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) across the country.