SA: Hacker couldn`t crack eNaTIS

6 July, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

July 06 2007 at 04:32AM source: IOL By Noah Barron The eNaTIS website that was invaded by a hacker on Wednesday contained no vital data whatsoever, the department of transport said on Thursday. Despite fears of identity fraud, the public eNaTIS website that was cracked by an individual calling himself “Tao” contained no driver registration [...]

SA: Hacker hijacks eNatis website

5 July, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: news24 04/07/2007 23:56 – (SA) Johannesburg – “It’s nothing to write home about,” said Transport Department spokesperson Collen Msibi when told that part of the eNatis website had been hacked. He said it wouldn’t affect the functioning of the controversial electronic national transport information system licensing system. Now, the whole site has been taken [...]

SA: eNatis should be shut down

1 June, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: news24 01/06/2007 10:15  – (SA) Adriaan Basson and Cobus Coetzee, Beeld Pretoria – You don’t even need a password to hack into eNatis. That was one of the shock findings by the auditor-general that Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe wanted to keep secret. Pretoria High Court on Thursday rejected the efforts of Radebe and [...]

Beeld wins eNatis case

31 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: news24 31/05/2007 12:37  – (SA) Pretoria – The Pretoria High Court has dismissed an application by the director general of transport, Mpumi Mpofu, to prevent the Beeld newspaper from publishing a story on security problems with the eNatis system. The department of transport was trying to stop Beeld from publishing a story about eNatis [...]

SA: Attempt to stop eNatis story

31 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: news24 30/05/2007 09:05  – (SA) Johannesburg – The Department of Transport is bringing an urgent interdict against Beeld newspaper to stop a story about the controversial eNatis system, said the newspaper on Tuesday night. Beeld investigative reporter Adriaan Basson said the newspaper had got hold of a section of one of the Auditor-General’s reports [...]

SAs eNaTIS chaos over

25 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL Sibusiso Ngalwa May 24 2007 at 09:23AM The worst was over and the new eNaTIS traffic system was running smoothly, Transport Department Director-General Mpumi Mpofu told MPs on Wednesday. Mpofu and Minister Jeff Radebe appeared before parliament’s Transport portfolio committee to explain eNaTIS’s problems. The system has been dogged by glitches since its [...]

eNatis costs SA billions

21 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: news24 20/05/2007 14:13 – (SA) Johannesburg – Billions of rands have been lost because of the eNatis debacle, which has plunged the automotive industry into chaos, put the brakes on vehicle sales and threatened the future of car rental, trucking and taxi companies, the Sunday Independent reported. The debacle worsened following a disclosure on [...]

SA: Parties want answers for eNaTIS failure

19 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL May 18 2007 at 04:57PM Opposition parties on Friday have demanded answers on the troubled eNaTIS traffic system, following allegations the Auditor-General (AG) has warned of problems before the system was introduced. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said it had urgently tabled questions in Parliament to Transport Minister Jeff Radebe, following media reports [...]

SAs eNatis causing blood to boil

18 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: new24 17/05/2007 07:57  – (SA) Johannesburg – Frustration continued to reign at Langlaagte testing and licensing station on Wednesday as the new transport electronic system (eNatis) kept on crashing. Some motorists queuing since dawn said they had been coming to the station since last month. Bongi Kubheka from Hillbrow had been struggling since April [...]

SAs eNaTIS is working according to plan

15 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL May 14 2007 at 10:50PM Police made 13 000 visits to the eNaTIS system on Monday, the transport department said after claims that it was incompatible with the police stolen vehicle registration system. Spokesperson Collen Msibi was reacting to a Democratic Alliance statement that the new licence and vehicle registration system, the electronic [...]

SA: Transport industry outraged by eNaTIS levy

12 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL May 11 2007 at 01:49PM By Candice Bailey Powerful stakeholders in the transport industry are squaring up with the government over the additional new levy to be raised from vehicle licence renewals to “maintain” the new eNaTIS system. The government recently announced that vehicle owners would have to fork out an additional R30 [...]

SAs eNatis pushing up licence costs

11 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: news24 10/05/2007 08:14 – (SA) Johannesburg – Applications for vehicle licences will cost R30 from July 1, said the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday. The fee was approved by the National Treasury and would help to finance the new electronic national traffic information system, eNatis, said spokesperson Thabo Tsholetsane. “This fee will be included [...]

SA eNaTIS: Sort it out or we sue

10 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL May 09 2007 at 12:43PM By Moshoeshoe Monare and Zara Nicholson The transport department is threatening to sue the contractor “as a last resort”, if the company fails to sort out the chaos in the eNaTIS traffic information system. The department said the Tasima consortium delivering the system has called in its creators [...]

SA eNatis: Traffic fines might be cancelled

9 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL May 08 2007 at 02:23PM Motorists issued with traffic fines because the country’s new electronic national traffic information system (eNaTIS) was offline may have them cancelled, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday. Radebe apologised unreservedly for the inconvenience the implementation of eNaTIS had caused. Motorists already issued with traffic fines due to [...]

SA eNatis: Traffic stations shut countrywide

7 May, 2007 in eNatis (SA), South Africa

source: IOL May 07 2007 at 09:43AM Traffic stations countrywide will be closed on Monday morning as new computer servers are being installed to tackle problems with the eNaTIS system, the department of transport announced. “People shouldn’t go to the traffic stations until after lunch…at around 2pm,” said spokesperson Collen Msibi. Msibi said the morning [...]