The Road Accident Fund RAF interim board had been in office for barely a month when the fund lost its court bid to extend the 180-day payment moratorium.
Chairperson Kenneth Brown described it as the event that broke the camels back, with only R5bn in the bank while being expected to settle a R20bn debt.
In September 2025, the Pretoria high court dismissed the RAFs urgent application to prolong the moratorium, which had shielded the fund from legal executions, finding that the matter lacked urgency and that the RAF could not rely on repeated urgent applications to evade its statutory obligations to accident victims.
