The Pretoria High Court recently heard that an Auditor General report on the old and new National Traffic Systems questioned whether the system had adequate security in place. It also emerged that the department had done nothing after being warned about the security breach.


The Auditor General’s report, revealed in court, says that any official in the department of transport with access to a terminal has been able to access and change files, possibly compromising the database. The court heard that this problem has existed for years on the old National Traffic Information System (Natis) and had migrated to the new electronic National Traffic Information System (eNatis), but that this breach was only discovered in the recent Auditor General report, which was completed in February.

The security concerns came to light during a hearing of an application from the Director General of Transport, Mpumi Mpofu, to prevent Beeld newspaper from publishing the Auditor General’s report on security problems related to the two systems. Judge Dion Basson dismissed the director general’s application.

The Auditor General’s report, revealed in court, says that any official in the department of transport with access to a terminal has been able to access and change files