South Africans are keeping their cars for longer than ever, the average vehicle on the country’s roads is now 10 years and 11 months old, according to Lightstone Auto data reported in mid-2026, with 47% of the passenger car fleet between 6 and 15 years old and a...
Drivers under 25 pay significantly more for car insurance in South Africa, and the gap isn’t small: young drivers can pay two to three times what their parents pay for equivalent cover. This isn’t arbitrary. According to the Road Traffic Management...
Most students and young drivers run into the same problem when they try to insure a car: a handful of risk factors stack up against them specifically, regardless of how careful a driver they actually are, and the resulting premium can come as a genuine shock. The good...
There is no single best car insurance company in South Africa, and that hasn’t changed since this question first started coming up. Every insurer builds its own pricing model from a slightly different set of assumptions, so the same driver can genuinely get the...
There is no single correct premium for a given car and driver age. Two South Africans can drive the identical make and model, live in the same suburb, and still pay meaningfully different monthly premiums, because insurers aren’t really pricing the car,...
