Tasima told: no more delays, leave the premises

Ilse de Lange

The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has made it clear that there will be no further negotiations with eNatis developer Tasima and that they wanted them gone before the end of the day.

“Our message to Tasima is just be humble, gentle and law-abiding citizens, hand over the system and kiss it goodbye.

“We thank them for everything they’ve done, but the time has come for us to part,” RTMC chief executive officer Makhosini Msibi told reporters.

Judge Neil Tuchten yesterday dismissed Tasima’s bid to appeal against his order that they must immediately vacate the Midrand premises from which the eNatis system is operated and hand over all access keys, access codes, source codes and data to the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC).

“...The application has no reasonable prospects of success,” the judge said.

Msibi said the legal wrangle with Tasima had been in the courts since 2012 with over 20 legal battles and our courts have consistently since 2016 in eight different judgments told Tasima to “go away”.

Tasima maintained a November 2016 Constitutional Court order giving them 30 days to hand over the system should be interpreted to mean that the parties had to reach an agreement on a hand-over plan within 30 days.

Tasima said there were 2 400 sites from which the system was operated, each with a myriad of equipment and licences, and at least 48 third-party service providers which had to be dealt with, which would take time.

Tasima claimed there would be chaos without an ordered hand-over period, but Msibi said government had already in 2015 taken over 140 of Tasima staff members who worked on the system. –

Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo National police spokesperson