Parliamentarians resolved on Tuesday to approach the Department of Transport about the shambolic state of affairs at the National Traffic Information System (eNatis). The Road Traffic Management Corporation and eNatis service provider Tasima are locked in legal disputes over responsibility for the shambles. They will appear in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday. Telkom has threatened to cut off services to eNatis because of nonpayment of its bill. Doing so would have caused the collapse of the vehicle registration and licensing system in the country. The road traffic corporation said on Monday Tasima had paid Telkom R8m for the provision of services to allow the traffic information system to continue running uninterrupted. Tasima is at the centre of a corruption, money laundering and bribery storm implicating former transport minister Sbu Ndebele. He is facing criminal charges before the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Pretoria, also on Thursday. Ndebele is accused of acce...

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