The Road Accident Fund annual report for 2012 is available on the Road Accident Fund’s website. Some of the interesting information include the fact that 225 905 individual payments were made during the 2012 year, with an average Rand value of R54 808,00. That is the average highest value in its history, but the claims are considerably down from 336 511 individual payments made in 2009, so there is already evidence of less claims in terms of the new system. During 2012 the Road Accident Fund received R17,1 billion in revenue from the fuel levies and investment income.

Their own statistics indicate that as of 31 March 2012 22% less cases were lodged than compared with 31 March 2011 and where the figures become very interesting is when they break those down into personal claims, which is what most attorneys do, and supplier claims where it is now obvious that the vast majority of claims they are receiving are in fact supplier claims. Of the 172 000 new cases that they say were lodged in the year ending 31 March 2012, a 120 000 were supplier claims and only 52 000 were personal claims – that compared to, for example 2009, when for the 2008/2008 year 166 000 personal claims were lodged. In other words, the number of claims that have been lodged with the Road Accident Fund is already down more than two-thirds. One could very quickly surmise that if the Road Accident Fund could only deal cost-effectively with the supplier claims, not only would the deficit probably cease to exist, but by now the Road Accident Found would start running at its highly profit.