Motor vehicle dealers queuing to register their vehicles at the Tshwane metro licensing office in Thabo Sehume Street (formerly Andries Street) were recently disappointed to find that this could not be done.
The reason for this is that their printers are out of toner. This office is mainly responsible for registering vehicles for motor dealers in Pretoria. Since February, however, this office has had no toner for its printers and has been unable to print licence discs. The council’s response is that it can only supply toner again at the end of the metro’s financial year, which is only in June.
Officials have apparently told motor dealers that if they are prepared to sponsor toner, they will print the required discs for them. This is something that irate customers find baffling and totally unacceptable. All efforts to get comment from management failed, as phone calls to all licence departments of the metro went unanswered.
”It is disgraceful that a municipality does not have enough money to buy basic items such as toner. How are such items budgeted for and what are the municipality’s top priorities in council? We would like to invite the media and interested parties to visit the licensing office at 227 Thabo Sehume Street and ask the metro how it intends to rectify this untenable situation,” Karin Meyer, DA spokesperson for community safety, said.
