“You can’t renew your car’s licence because you are deceased.” This is the message a Stellenbosch businessman received when he recently tried to renew one of his cars’ licences. Adriaan van Niekerk, former MP from the Northern Cape, now has to fill in a stack of forms, have fingerprints taken, make official statements and have [...]
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 Arrive Alive website received the following request for assistance: “l have had a nightmare experience ever since l settled in SA , please advise on the legislation governing converting drivers licence for temporary residence or permanant residence in SA. I lived with some RSA citizens in Zim and UK. They only needed to convert [...]
All service centres in Gauteng were closed during the last week of July due to the municipal strike, and this had a marked effect on vehicle registrations. Only 32 578 such transactions were recorded on the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) in the week of 27 to 31 July. This is a decrease of 44% [...]
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Although the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) recorded a month-on-month increase of 23.03% in vehicle introductions in May 2009, new vehicle registrations across all categories dropped by 40.26% compared to May 2008. Used vehicle registrations remained virtually constant, with 0.74% more registrations in May 2009 than there were in [...]
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In a highly successful test conducted over the weekend and continued early this morning, the eNaTIS disaster recovery centre (DRC) has proved to be fully operational. The DRC, housed at a remote site, serves as full backup to the system’s main data centre should the latter become unavailable for [...]
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The National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) recorded a month-on-month drop of 30.14% in vehicle introductions in April 2009 (33 035 vehicle introductions compared to 47 285 in March 2009), providing further evidence of the acute decrease in vehicle sales reported by industry analysts and widely reported on in [...]
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A visitor to the Arrive Alive website raised the following question: “I am a South African citizen and am doing research on the amount of vehicles there are on the South African roads. More specific – the amount of registered busses or trucks per province and totals. Is there [...]
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Launched during April 2007, the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) recently turned two. In its first 24 months of operation this world-class system has proved to be more than equal to the formidable task of handling the hundreds of millions of transactions performed at service centres across the country, [...]
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