A total of 36 out of 44 software technicians quit the electronic National Traffic Information System (eNatis), Rapport newspaper reported on Sunday.
The technicians had left Tasima, which operates eNatis, at the end of February, company spokesperson Philip van der Merwe confirmed.
The eNatis programme manages the country’s driver and vehicle permit systems, among others.
The resignations follow [...]

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We decided to provide greater clarity on the demerit system and specifically the effect thereof on speeding offences!
There are many hoax emails doing the rounds about AARTO and the demerit system. Some of these claim that the demerit system has started and others that you will lose demerit points if you exceed the limit with [...]

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This question was sent to the Arrive Alive website yesterday. We would like to share the answer provided by one of the Experts from the RTMC:
“The Demerit Point part of AARTO will follow after the implementation of AARTO (Penalty Payment part) countrywide. The National Minister of Transport already indicated that he would like to see [...]

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A game reserve says traffic officers humiliated two guests by calling them “too fat” at a weighbridge. Management at Aquila Private Game Reserve, near Touws River, said its van was operating “within the restrictions of its permit” on Sunday.
The reserve’s Toyota Quantum, licensed to carry 13 passengers and the driver, was transporting 10 passengers when [...]

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Officials have stopped and checked 1 141 447 vehicles and drivers in 988 road-blocks throughout the country since December 1 as part of the Arrive Alive road safety campaign, the Transport Department said on Monday.
It said 3 939 people were arrested for drunk driving, 298 for reckless and negligent driving and 155 for overloading.
In addition, [...]

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The Gauteng Provincial Gazette No 265 , dated 10 December 2009 stipulates:
1. New Gauteng Vehicle Registrations
All Vehicles registered with the new number format [BB99BB*GP], as specified in this notice, shall use the new plate format, as specified in this notice.
2. Existing Gauteng Licensed Motor Vehicles
All Vehicles registered with the license number format [BBB999*GP] shall use that [...]

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The Arrive Alive website received an email earlier today from a road user expressing concern with the condition of some of our roads. We would like to share this:
“For the past three years I have been travelling to Vryheid over the December Holidays and always use the R50 Delmas, Leandra, Standerton road. For the third [...]

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We have discussed on the Arrive Alive website the dangers of overloading to road safety. But what are the tools in the fight against overloading?
These are pictures of a MASS 5000 trailer systems shipped to Angola. Their roads department use these systems to do overload legislation with. The costs of static weigh bridge installations are [...]

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Western Cape transport and law enforcement authorities will meet bus company SA Roadlink to discuss concerns about the province’s crackdown on public transport, safety MEC Lennit Max says.
“Roadlink wants to see us,” said Max, of the company that had complained that at least 200 of its buses, which it said complied with legal requirements, [...]

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The Western Cape community safety and transport MECs will hold an urgent meeting on Monday to discuss what action should be taken against SA Roadlink.
An SA Roadlink bus driver was caught driving under the influence of alcohol in Worcester on Saturday night.
The incident comes just days after two SA Roadlink busses were pulled off the [...]

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