Tasima, the former operator of the electronic National Traffic Information System (eNatis), has lost its Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) bid to appeal its loss of the system. The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC), meanwhile, says it will challenge a court order compelling it to take on 80 former Tasima staff, part of 23 separate legal battles fought with the company, over the control of the electronic register for traffic information. The SCA dismissed Tasima’s bid to challenge its eviction from its Midrand premises on Tuesday without hearing arguments, RTMC spokesperson Simon Zwane said on Wednesday. Tasima had directly petitioned the SCA after the High Court in Pretoria dismissed leave to appeal a judgment to handover the system to the RTMC immediately. In November, the Constitutional Court had ordered that the system be handed over within 30 days, which did not occur, prompting additional court proceedings that ended in the April handover. Tasima had been in control of the...

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