The Department of Transport’s (DoT) Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) is “ready and able” to manage the electronic national administration traffic information system (eNaTIS), according to the Minister of Transport, Dipuo Peters.
Peters was reacting to the dismissal of the urgent Constitutional Court application by Tasima to have it interpret the November 9, 2016 High Court judgment that the company’s contract with the Department of Transport (DoT) – for the maintenance and expansion of eNaTIS – be suspended.
On Monday‚ the Constitutional Court announced that the application should be dismissed “as it bears no prospects of success”. Tasima now has a month to hand over the eNaTIS service to the RTMC.
“The decision by the Constitutional Court is a confirmation and a vindication that the Department of Transport and all its agencies are competent enough and ready to execute their mandate without the involvement of third parties,” said Peters.
According to her, the RTMC has been ready to administer the eNaTIS system since May 2015 when the Tasima contract was to have expired. “We are resolute in our commitment and we will waste no time and leave no stone unturned in ensuring that the RTMC undertakes their mandate to execute and discharge their function,” said Peters.
However, the road transport and car manufacturing sectors have, for some time, expressed concern about whether the RTMC’s computer system is equipped to handle the electronic system.
The concerns were underpinned in the auditor-general Kimi Makwetu’s November 2016 report where he, in giving the department “a qualified audit with findings”, expressed the concern that it “lacked leadership when it came to enforcing sound financial management”.
