The Department of Transport is forging ahead with plans to shut down licensing centres that owe more than R20-million.
Two centres in Kouga municipality, which includes Humansdorp and Hankey, owe the department R20-million in licensing fees while Cradock owes R907983.
Transport MEC Weziwe Tikana revealed this during last week’s legislature sitting in an oral reply to questions about money owed to her department by provincial licensing centres.
The question was lodged by DA MPL Mashall von Buchenroder, who requested a breakdown of all provincial licensing centres still indebted to the department.
Tikana revealed that Kouga and Cradock were the only areas in the province that still owed fees. She said various monthly statements and letters of demand to Kouga, and meetings with municipal management and her
office, had not yielded any positive results.
“The department has now given a notice of termination of licensing agency agreement in Kouga,” Tikana said.
She added that her department had since written a notice of demand to Cradock authorities.
Attempts to reach Kouga’s municipal manager Sidney Fadi were unsuccesful yesterday.
— asandan@dispatch.co.za
R20m debt gives Tikana licence to act
Two centres in Kouga municipality, which includes Humansdorp and Hankey, owe the department R20-million in licensing fees while Cradock owes R907983.
Transport MEC Weziwe Tikana revealed this during last week’s legislature sitting in an oral reply to questions about money owed to her department by provincial licensing centres.
The question was lodged by DA MPL Mashall von Buchenroder, who requested a breakdown of all provincial licensing centres still indebted to the department.
Tikana revealed that Kouga and Cradock were the only areas in the province that still owed fees. She said various monthly statements and letters of demand to Kouga, and meetings with municipal management and her
office, had not yielded any positive results.
“The department has now given a notice of termination of licensing agency agreement in Kouga,” Tikana said.
She added that her department had since written a notice of demand to Cradock authorities.
Attempts to reach Kouga’s municipal manager Sidney Fadi were unsuccesful yesterday.
— asandan@dispatch.co.za
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