The Justice Project South Africa (JPSA) says that Sanral’s denial that it has commenced issuing Final Demands and summonses shows that \u201cthe head doesn\u2019t appear to know what the tail is doing\u201d.<\/p>\n
On 6 May 2014, the JPSA issued a press statement saying that the Sanral Violations Processing Centre (VPC) had started sending out emails stating that \u201cA Final Demand has been issued in regard to your e-toll Violations Processing Centre (VPC) Account\u201d and \u201cA summons has been issued\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sanral denied sending out<\/strong><\/a> any final letters of demand or court summonses to motorists, saying that particular route remains a last resort for the roads agency.<\/p>\n The JPSA has now hit back, saying that this denial by Sanral spokesperson Vusi Mona is worrisome, \u201cbecause if this is true, then it simply means that the Sanral VPC is lying to people in its emails\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis constitutes both, unconscionable (unreasonably excessive) conduct and intimidation on the part of the VPC since they have made threats and statements of fact in their emails to the effect that ‘a letter of demand has been issued’ and ‘a summons has been issued’,\u201d the JPSA said.<\/p>\n The JPSA added that the emails were indeed received by a company on 2 May 2014, and there is no denying this fact.<\/p>\n \u201cThe internet headers for both emails have been verified and confirm the emails as having originated from bulkmail.tmtservices.co.za,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Sanral VPC is run by the ETC consortium and we understand that TMT Services (Pty) Ltd, a Kapsch-owned company, is responsible for running the VPC.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhilst it is not unusual for TMT Services to engage in intimidation tactics and stray from the truth in order to achieve their objectives, there are laws prohibiting such tactics, but for some reason, TMT Services and others don\u2019t seem to be of the opinion that laws apply to them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSurely, if what Sanral says about not having issued any Final Demands or approached the NPA for the issue of summonses, TMT Services can be said to be deliberately lying to members of the public in the intimidating emails that they send to them?\u201d the JPSA said.<\/p>\n Sanral issues e-toll summonses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n E-tolls enhance economic growth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n E-tolls not only a middle class problem<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nMore on e-tolls<\/h3>\n