{"id":51061,"date":"2013-12-18T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51061"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:55:42","slug":"claim-your-e-toll-money-back-jpsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/51061\/claim-your-e-toll-money-back-jpsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Claim your e-toll money back: JPSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motorists might be able to claim e-tolls refund because a Government Gazette notice about the charges indicates conflicting amounts, the Justice Project SA (JPSA) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The differences were in the English and Afrikaans versions of the e-toll tariff notices published in the Government Gazette, said JPSA national chairman Howard Dembovsky.<\/p>\n

Both versions were signed by the transport department’s acting director general on November 19 and “therefore have equal, but conflicting weight,” said Dembovsky.<\/p>\n

“Effectively, the tariffs applicable to registered ‘alternative users’ differ in the English and Afrikaans versions, and this introduces severe interpretation issues,” Dembovsky said.<\/p>\n

JPSA called on the department to immediately repeal the offending Tariff Gazette.<\/p>\n

It asked that the department instruct the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) to stop levying and collecting e-tolls until the matter was corrected, Dembovsky said.<\/p>\n

\"Howard<\/a>

Howard Dembovsky<\/p><\/div>\n

The Star newspaper reported that, according to Dembovsky, users of the paymyfines website were receiving e-toll bills by e-mail even though they were not registered e-tag users, or had not given their e-mail address to Sanral.<\/p>\n

Dembovsky reportedly alleged that the website appeared to break its own privacy policy as it promises not to disclose personal information without consent.<\/p>\n

The newspaper reported that its own investigation had found that the company running the paymyfines website and the website etcrecovery.co.za, which was sending the e-mails demanding e-toll money, were part of the same company — TMT Services (Pty) Ltd.<\/p>\n

A South African company, TMT was part of the Austrian company Kapsch TrafficCom, which runs the e-toll project.<\/p>\n

Dembovsky reportedly told the newspaper that the e-mails demanding payment did not have an invoice attached, and thus apparently had no legal validity.<\/p>\n

Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona reportedly told The Star that Sanral was obtaining information for invoices from eNatis, the national administration traffic information system, and from a “database legally obtained from third parties”.<\/p>\n

The Star also reported that the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) had again claimed that Sanral sales figures were inflated, this time based on Outa research.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, Outa conducted its own physical e-tag counts on nearly 8000 cars on and off the freeway and found only about 15 percent of them had an e-tag.<\/p>\n

“Even if one pushed the e-tag penetration to 20 percent, the number of e-tags in use will be no more than 450,000, which is around half the number of tag sales recently espoused by Sanral,” Outa was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Last week, Sanral said nearly 900,000 e-tags had been issued.<\/p>\n

More on e-tolls and e-tags<\/h3>\n

Sanral stands by e-tag sales figures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sanral e-tag numbers a lie: Outa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

E-tags: millions unsold<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

How many e-tags has Sanral really sold?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sanral: Beat the rush for e-tags<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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