{"id":193000,"date":"2017-08-17T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=193000"},"modified":"2017-08-17T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:54:56","slug":"joburg-speed-cameras-are-offline-and-no-fines-have-been-issued-for-months-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/193000\/joburg-speed-cameras-are-offline-and-no-fines-have-been-issued-for-months-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg speed cameras are offline – and no fines have been issued for months: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

A move by the DA government in Johannesburg to clean-up\u00a0contracts with service providers has halted\u00a0the electronic enforcement of speed limits in the city.<\/p>\n

According to a report by MoneyWeb<\/a>,<\/strong> citing anonymous sources within the administration,\u00a0the intervention has also seriously affected general law enforcement in the area.<\/p>\n

In March 2017, the city reportedly cancelled service contracts with five\u00a0service providers who supplied equipment and systems to generate the fines.<\/p>\n

Because it is unlawful to contract a new provider without setting out a tender,\u00a0the city has been without cameras or systems to issue the volumes of speeding fines it used to.<\/p>\n

These service providers helped the department generate between R30 million to R35 million per month from traffic fines, former JMPD director Gerrie Gerneke told MoneyWeb – which has now been reduced to R3 million.<\/p>\n

Gerneke said that he was worried that motorists could now speed on the city’s roads without consequences.<\/p>\n

Sources confirmed that no new electronic traffic fines had been processed or\u00a0loaded onto the National Contravention Register since the service providers were given the boot, MoneyWeb reported.<\/p>\n

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A move by the DA government in Johannesburg to clean-up\u00a0contracts with service providers has halted\u00a0the electronic enforcement of speed limits in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-193000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193004,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000\/revisions\/193004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}