The unfinished Sebokeng Driving Licence Testing Centre that should have been opened in 2021. Pictures: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizen There are some signs of life – expensive, taxpayer-funded life – as construction workers busy themselves trying to turn back the clock on a decade-old infrastructure project which will, when finished, have suck up more than R200 million compared to an original contract cost of R63 million. Work on the Sebokeng Driving Licence Testing Centre (DLTC) resumed last year after construction was left incomplete and abandoned in 2019, becoming the target of vandals.
This was disclosed by Sedibeng district municipality transport and infrastructure MMC Nkosinathi Ndwandwe, talking to Sedibeng Ster. Ndwandwe said a contractor has been appointed with the site handed over on 17 June, 2025. “Site establishment began on 18 June and the estimated completion of the works is 17 December, 2026.” She said the Gauteng department of roads and transport had appointed the Development Bank of South Africa “to implement the project on our behalf”.
The centre, she added, “was only about 8% complete and the target date for completion was December this year”. The Gauteng government is said to have injected an additional R138 million to complete construction of the long-delayed Sebokeng DLTC. More than R80 million has been spent on the project, yet the facility remained non-operational almost a decade since construction began. The original projected cost for the project was R63 million, but more than R80 million is said to have already been spent on the construction of the facility.
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