Minister of Transport, Dipuo Peters has welcomed yesterday afternoon’s Constitutional Court judgment that private company Tasima hand over control of the Electronic National Administration Traffic Information System (eNatis), system to the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) within 30 days.
“Throughout the long, painstaking legal process and impediments thrown our way, we remained resilient and undeterred. We were resolute in our commitment to leave no stone unturned in the fight to reclaim the,” said Peters.
According to her, the “landmark judgment” has drastically changed the legal landscape and confirmed that South Africa is a Constitutional State and that justice will always prevail.
A Department of Transport (DoT) statement highlighted that in 2007, it informed Tasima – contracted to manage the eNatis administration in 2001 – that it should hand over eNatis back to the department after the five-year contract that was agreed upon expired.
The handover never took place and Tasima continued to provide services on a month-to-month basis until 2010 when the contract was surreptitiously, irregularly and illegally extended for a further five-year period ending 31 April 2015.
The matter between the Department of Transport and Tasima was first heard by the North Gauteng High Court, which ruled in favour of the department and the RTMC in June 2015.
Tasima then took the matter on appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein and the court ruled in its favour in December last year.
Government appealed to the Constitutional Court, as the final court of arbiter to bring closure on the matter.
