It’s about that time of year right, the time of year when you find out you have to fork out more money to keep your car on the road. Except this year you’re still waiting, because someone at the Department of Transport had themselves a shocker.

Yes it’s true, they didn’t pay their Post Office bill and the letters haven’t been sent. Below from IOL:

This was revealed in Parliament when the DA’s spokesman on transport, Manny de Freitas, asked minister Dipuo Peters why the licence renewal notices were not being sent out. Peters replied that “the delay is due to non-payment of Post Office outstanding fees”.

De Freitas said he had received many complaints countrywide about the issuing of vehicle licence renewal notices and he had been trying to get an answer about what the problem was – without success, until the reply in Parliament.

“In the meantime, motorists have received fines for driving with expired licence discs, through no fault of their own,” he said.

You know where this is going right – someone is going to bring up those pesky e-tolls:

Justice Project South Africa chairman Howard Dembovsky said the department of transport needed to pay its bills on time, as it could not expect the public to pay their e-tolls when it itself was behind in its payments.

E-tolls hey, those sound like such a las.

[source:iol]