{"id":52315,"date":"2014-01-28T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T10:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52315"},"modified":"2014-01-28T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T10:29:35","slug":"sanral-processing-3-million-transactions-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/52315\/sanral-processing-3-million-transactions-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanral processing 3 million transactions daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanral<\/a>\u00a0chief financial officer, Inge Mulder, says the national roads agency is processing three million transactions relating to its e-toll system, each day.<\/p>\n

Mulder,\u00a0in an interview with Moneyweb\u00a0<\/a>, said that the system was\u00a0tested at six million and is able to process far more than that.<\/p>\n

The e-toll system, implemented on Gauteng’s freeways on December 3, has come under fire due to system glitches with hundreds, if not thousands of motorists complaining about incorrect billing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe system is solid\u201d, Mulder told Moneyweb. \u201cThe extent of the glitches is small. Only 0.3% of the 56,000 queries received from December\u00a03 necessitated us writing a work ticket to adjust something on the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Sanral\u00a0spokesperson,\u00a0Vusi Mona said that\u00a0number of complaints received since toll commencement \u00a0to 10 January 2014 was 2% of total registered account units. He did not say how many accounts there were.<\/p>\n

The number of valid complaints however, he put at 12% of that 2% of\u00a0registered account units.<\/p>\n

Viability cost?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mulder could not disclose to Moneyweb the violation percentage the system would no longer be viable, \u00a0and at what point the cost of collection is too high to pursue a specific account,\u00a0amid much protest and threats by the public that they refuse to support e-tolls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole purpose is to collect payments before it is being handed over for criminal prosecution,\u201d Mulder said.<\/p>\n

According to Moneyweb, motorists who are convicted for refusing to pay e-tolls could face possible fines of up to R2,160 per gantry.<\/p>\n

This was just a “bonus” payment to Sanral, however, as the road agency did not seek to draw revenue from such instances, it was reported.<\/p>\n

Mulder said Sanral\u2019s debt currently stands at R41 billion, while it has\u00a0been widely reported that the agency needs to collect beyween R250 million and R300 million a month through e-tolls to manage its finances.<\/p>\n

Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), the contractor tasked with managing the e-toll system, is expected to hand in its first certificate at the end of January.<\/p>\n

More on e-toll fines<\/h3>\n

E-toll fines, jail time and criminal records: the truth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

E-tolls blamed for the rise in cloned plates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bizarre e-toll billing complaints<\/strong><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Sanral says e-toll complaints valid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanral chief financial officer, Inge Mulder, says the national roads agency is processing three million transactions relating to its e-toll system, each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1804,26,7369,429],"class_list":["post-52315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-inge-mulder","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52315","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=52315"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52323,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52315\/revisions\/52323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}