Namibia to launch e-ticketing system for traffic offences
Digital enforcement drive links ticketing network, AI education and law reform
Namibia will introduce a nationwide e-ticketing system for traffic offences, linking police, prosecutors and courts in real time to enforce accountability and curb repeat violations.
Namibia will introduce a national electronic ticketing system for traffic offences next financial year to improve enforcement, transparency and accountability across police, prosecution and judicial systems.Announcing the move at the 10th National Road Safety Conference in Swakopmund, National Road Safety Council (NRSC) chairperson Elifas !Owos-Ôab said the digital platform will replace paper fines with real-time electronic processing of traffic offences.
“E-ticketing ensures that repeat offenders are quickly identified and held accountable,” he said. “The transparency, speed and fairness enabled by e-ticketing can enhance public confidence in the justice system’s handling of traffic offences.”
The e-ticketing system forms part of an ICT-based integrated road-safety management platform under the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030.
It will merge road-crash data, traffic-offence records, vehicle and driver registers, and civil-registry information into one database, allowing real-time monitoring and data-driven decision-making.
The pilot is a joint project of the NRSC, traffic law-enforcement agencies, Ministry of Justice, Office of the Judiciary, Law Reform and Development Commission, Ministry of Finance, Roads Authority, and Office of the Prosecutor-General.
A task team of senior justice and police officials has been appointed to implement the system within the current financial year.
The initiative aligns with the revival of regional road-safety forums in all 14 regions, designed to localise enforcement and feed live data into the national platform.
In the Erongo Region, Governor Nathalia /Goagoses has relaunched the regional forum to coordinate local awareness and enforcement drives.
Data from these structures will also connect with the soon-to-open Arandis Emergency and Traffic Management Centre, which will oversee traffic surveillance and rapid-response operations along the Arandis–Usakos and Arandis–Swakopmund corridors.
The Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVA Fund) also announced complementary reforms to digitise its claims process and introduce AI-based public-education tools.
Chief executive Rosalia Martins-Ausiku said the fund will enable electronic submission of claims, create benefit cards for unbanked claimants and use AI-driven gamified learning to teach road safety to children.
“We are embracing digital transformation to simplify access to claims and ensure faster, more transparent service delivery,” Martins-Ausiku said.
The NRSC warned though that the Road Safety Act of 1972 remains “obsolete” and does not support modern data-driven enforcement. !Owos-Ôab called for the expediting of the Road Safety Management Bill to give legal force to digital systems such as e-ticketing and integrated crash databases.