Disclaimer

The amounts, penalty units and demerit points for individual offences live in Schedule 3 to the AARTO Regulations, 2026. That schedule is published in later parts of the Government Gazette issue that carries the regulations, and those parts do not resolve from any source tried — the national government site, the AARTO sites and the public gazette archives alike. So this site does not hold the charge book, and it will not reproduce one from a third-party transcription: a per-offence amount copied off another website is exactly the kind of figure that is wrong for a year before anyone notices.

The amount for your own matter is printed on your own notice, and it is the binding one. What this site can tell you is how that amount is arrived at, what the discount does to it, and which fee attaches at which stage.

The Criminal Procedure Act supplies the mechanism for an out-of-court traffic penalty — a written notice or a summons, endorsed with an option to admit guilt and pay — but it fixes no amount. The amount is determined by the magistrate for the district, or set case by case within a ceiling that a separate ministerial notice fixes. There is therefore no such thing as “the South African traffic fine” outside an AARTO area, and a single national figure cannot be quoted honestly.

Figures for this route that circulate on other sites come from a ministerial notice more than a decade old, and this site does not repeat them. The amount that applies to you is the one endorsed on your notice or summons by the authority that issued it.

The fee for attending a rehabilitation programme is stated in the fee schedule as a standard rather than an amount. That is neither a figure nor a gap in the schedule: it is what the instrument says. This site therefore prints the schedule’s own words in quotation marks in the fee table, and does not convert them into a range, a typical amount or a guess.

If a rehabilitation programme is proposed to you, the fee is set by whoever runs it, within whatever the authority accepts as market related. Ask for it in writing before you commit.

The road-traffic regulations were searched end to end for a tolerance applied to a measured speed before a driver is charged. What that corpus holds are tolerances of a completely different kind — permitted variance in vehicle dimensions, and in the placement of road signs. Nothing was found that states a margin on a speed reading, and nothing was found that states there is none either. That is an open search, not a finding in either direction.

So this site publishes no tolerance figure and makes no claim that one does or does not exist. Any specific number you have seen quoted for South Africa did not come from the instruments cited here.

The earlier, repealed set of regulations carried its own schedule of offences, and it still governs a matter that had already begun in one of the two metros before the current regulations took effect. That document IS in this project’s source corpus — but only as a publisher’s consolidation rather than as the gazette, and transcribing a repealed charge book from a secondary rendering is a separate piece of authoring work rather than something to fill in quietly. What this site does carry from it is what is load-bearing: its column layout, its own disqualification threshold, and the classes of infringer it excluded from the discount.