Sanral denies e-tag checks
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has denied collaboration with officers from the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) to check whether road-users are e-tagged.
Acquiring an e-tag is optional and no road user may be stopped for not having an e-tag.
This comes after several motorists called a radio station with claims that JMPD officers stopped them over the weekend to check whether they have e-tags.
“We deny any partnership with the JMPD on this. No vehicles on any road are being checked to see whether they are e-tag registered. The JMPD has, in the past, distanced itself from this and so did we,” said the spokesperson for Sanral, Mr Vusi Mona.
“There could be people who are doing this illegally in our name, or it is one of those urban legends now gaining a life of its own,” he added.
Sanral has urged any road user who has been stopped to check if they have an e-tag to contact the agency.
Fraudsters posing as JMPD officers must be reported to the JMPD.
“Acquiring and e-tag is not compulsory,” said Mr Mona.
Sanral can be contacted on 0800 726 725.
The JMPD can be contacted via Joburg Connect on 011 375-5911.
