License question?

[Toppie]

Be careful what you guys wish for and don't say it too loud.
 
If the Shaik's hear of this they and their Swedish partners and BAE Systems will institute card type licenses, one each for Freshwater, Rock and Surf, Off Shore, Collection of Crustaceans and Bait, another for the Boat.
 
To be renewed yearly at cost of R400-00 per card.
 
You'll stand in ques all day to apply and get your photo's and finger prints taken.
 
It will create a new State Department and employ 4000 people to implement and administer. We are already over regulated with the biggest burocratic Civil Service in the world.

[Happy Dog]

The confusion   Continues  with these clowns. I phoned DAF in Cape Town they told me old enough to fish and hold a rod need a license. So both my boys have. Age 7&9.it is less hassle to worry about. Especially as the parkies loiter around the easy pickings every weekend at DSBC . Good luck for the card system. In a first world country no problem . Here I ?????

[Wynand13]

Recently got a license from Post Office in KZN. If you can fish you need a licence. Its (in the region of) R76 per item and valid for a year. You pay for what you do, if you want to collect bait, you pay, lobster you pay, deep sea, you pay. But it took me 10 minutes, they ask ID number, but sure you can get away with not having one as a kid.
KZN seem to be jacked up on this, a lot more than any other province...

[dodger]

Recently got a license from Post Office in KZN. If you can fish you need a licence. Its (in the region of) R76 per item and valid for a year. You pay for what you do, if you want to collect bait, you pay, lobster you pay, deep sea, you pay. But it took me 10 minutes, they ask ID number, but sure you can get away with not having one as a kid.
KZN seem to be jacked up on this, a lot more than any other province...

don't kids born in SA get an id number on the birth certificate? Visitors use there passport number for a fishing licence

[Marthin]

Point is not even the people working at DOFF knows....

I agree with the above sentiments of rather have it than not as i dont want to be in an argument with a DOFF official.....

But there are bags full of questions here that needs to be answered.... for example....

1.  If the child is under 10

The child lacks criminal capacity and cannot be prosecuted.
Child Justice Act 75 of 2008.
Sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.

[Toppie]

Exactly Marthin.
 
Bordering on ridiculous. But who wants to argue with a DOFF-, or doff Conservation  official somewhere in the middle of nowhere.