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Johannesburg's Speed Cameras: Leased from Syntell, Removed with the Contract

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Johannesburg's speed cameras belonged to the vendor. When the three-year lease ended on 23 December 2025 Syntell took them away, and by September 2026 the city still had none.

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Evidence🏛️ Official
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Run byJohannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (City of Johannesburg); cameras and fine-processing back office supplied and owned by Syntell (Pty) Ltd under a three-year service-lease contract, December 2022 to 23 December 2025
Scale🏙️ City-wide
FundingMunicipal service-lease contract: the City paid Syntell for the use and maintenance of vendor-owned cameras and the fine-processing back office; contract value not published

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Johannesburg's camera speed enforcement ran on a three-year service-lease contract with Syntell, awarded on 5 December 2022: the fixed and mobile cameras and the back office that turned their images into AARTO infringement notices belonged to the vendor. In 2023-24 the Road Traffic Infringement Agency's register recorded 3,884,300 notices captured by the JMPD, 3,588,982 of them camera-captured. The contract reached its end-of-term date on 23 December 2025; Syntell removed its cameras and systems, and the JMPD owned none. As of 22 September 2026 a replacement tender was still under way, speed enforcement was manual, and the City says its next contract will have it own the equipment — the promise it had already made in 2017.

Suspended 📅 2022–2025

📊 Impact

The measured effects are notice counts and revenue, not safety. The Road Traffic Infringement Agency's register shows JMPD camera notices rising from 674,296 in 2022-23 to 3,588,982 in 2023-24, the first full year of the contract, and the City's audited statements for the year to June 2024 say the Syntell contract 'resulted in increased revenue', with fines, penalties and forfeits of R175.592 million against R148.341 million a year earlier. On 1 January 2023, the first day back, the JMPD recorded 6,312 speeding cases. After the lapse the JMPD put the historical take from traffic fines at about R50 million a year, and Sunday World reported an estimated R17 million lost by April 2026. No source measures a road-safety effect, and the City's audited statements for the year to June 2025 credit that year's over-recovery on traffic fines to the JMPD 'shifting focus from camera reliance to deploying more personnel for vehicle stops'.

🎓 Lesson

The contract decided, not the technology. Under the service-lease model the City paid for the use of vendor-owned hardware, so when the term ended the whole enforcement layer — cameras, image processing and the upload of other fines — left with the contractor, and the JMPD said its officers lacked the calibrated equipment to measure exact speeds. It is the third gap since 2017: that year the City terminated a contract it found had been unlawfully extended and the provider removed the fixed cameras; the next contract ended in May 2021 and no speeding fines were issued until January 2023; and the 2017 statement had already promised a contract under which the Department would own both the system and the cameras. Whether ownership secures continuity is untested — OUTA's Wayne Duvenage questioned whether insourcing would help a city that is 'not known for' excellent systems.

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Sources

↗ City of Johannesburg — Group Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 (note 6, Fines, penalties and forfeits)Audited group statements. Note 6 on fines, penalties and forfeits states that the traffic fines contract (SYNTELL) was finalised and in effect for the entire twelve months of the year, which resulted in increased revenue, with better-than-expected performance on manual citations. The revenue table gives fines, penalties and forfeits of R175,592 thousand (group, 2024) against R148,341 thousand (2023). The statements carry no cover date in the text; they were released with the City's results notice in January 2025.
↗ City of Johannesburg — Group Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 (note 6, Fines, penalties and forfeits)Audited group statements for the last full year of the contract, mirrored by National Treasury (byte-identical to the City's own copy under the 2024/25 Integrated Annual Report folder). Note 6 says traffic fines revenue exceeded budget largely because the JMPD shifted focus from camera reliance to deploying more personnel for vehicle stops, tickets and roadblocks; fines, penalties and forfeits were R414,595 thousand against a budget of R168,996 thousand and R175,592 thousand the year before. No cover date in the text.
↗ Road Traffic Infringement Agency — Annual Report 2023/24 (section 4.2.1, notices captured by the JMPD)Published September 2024The national agency that administers AARTO, which applies in Johannesburg. Its National Contraventions Register tables show the JMPD captured 3,884,300 notices in 2023-24, of which 3,588,982 were AARTO 03 camera-captured notices, against 758,020 and 674,296 in 2022-23. The report is signed on 27 September 2024. The figures count notices uploaded by the issuing authority, not fines paid.
↗ City of Johannesburg — Integrated Annual Report 2024/25 (JMPD Traffic Enforcement Programme)Published January 2026The City's annual report for 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. The JMPD Traffic Enforcement Programme states that the department recorded over 1.6 million speed-related violations and issued a combined 91,004 AARTO notices, and its challenges table lists expanded speed enforcement using mobile units and static cameras. Cited for the audited-year description of the camera layer and as the second count beside the RTIA and JMPD figures.
↗ City of Johannesburg — Setting the record straight on speed law-enforcement in Joburg (18 Aug 2017)Public Safety department statement: in January 2017 the City found the speed enforcement contract had been unlawfully extended, terminated it, and the service provider removed the fixed cameras; the City said the new contract would make provision for the Department to own both the system and the speed camera infrastructure.
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↗ TimesLIVE — Joburg speed cameras back, more than 6000 speeding offences on new year's day (4 Jan 2023)JMPD spokesperson Xolani Fihla confirms the City signed a three-year contract with Syntel (Pty) Ltd for advanced law enforcement and crash management (ALECRAM) services, awarded on December 5; the high-speed unit recorded 6,312 speeding cases on 1 January; motorists had not received speeding fines since May 2021 when the previous provider's contract ended; the City had previously put the revenue loss at about R36 million.
↗ The Citizen (Moneyweb) — The day Joburg's speed cameras went awol (26 Jan 2026)Moneyweb report (Antoinette Slabbert) republished by The Citizen: three sources confirm the Syntell contract, which provided the cameras and the back-office system to process fines, lapsed on 23 December with no replacement appointed; Syntell took its cameras and the JMPD has none of its own; Syntell also uploaded other traffic and by-law fines; 3.4 million fines in the previous financial year, 3.1 million of them from speed-camera images, attributed to the RTIA annual report; 277,705 camera fines in January 2025; JMPD traffic-fine revenue of almost R47 million in 2023/24.
↗ Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)JMPD spokesperson Fihla on the record: the contract was not terminated but reached its end-of-term date, after which the provider removed its resources and systems; the service-lease model under which the City paid for the use of Syntell's hardware and its maintenance; 'not owning the equipment is a disadvantage'; the three-year contract came into effect in December 2022; the City had been unable to issue speeding tickets since May 2021; an estimated R17 million in lost revenue; DA and JMPD-insider criticism.
↗ Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)JMPD confirms the service lease agreement with Syntell expired on 23 December 2025; Fihla: traffic fines historically generated about R50m a year, about 3.1 million fines in the previous reporting cycle came from camera-captured images, a further 300,000 manual fines were issued, officers lack calibrated equipment to measure exact speeds, bids are under technical evaluation, and the City's long-term strategy is to procure and own its own enforcement equipment; OUTA's Wayne Duvenage on contract renewals and insourcing.
↗ Eyewitness News — Joburg motorists still without camera-based speed enforcement (22 Sep 2026)The latest source: nearly ten months after the cameras were switched off the tender to replace the system is still under way; Fihla says enforcement operations were temporarily suspended as access to back-end systems ended and the City is navigating the MFMA procurement process; officers previously on speed-camera duty were redeployed to physical policing; more than three million of the previous financial year's fines were from speed cameras; almost R47 million from all traffic fines in 2023/24.

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  1. City of Johannesburg · city governmentCity of Johannesburg — Setting the record straight on speed law-enforcement in Joburg (18 Aug 2017)
  2. TimesLIVE · pressTimesLIVE — Joburg speed cameras back, more than 6000 speeding offences on new year's day (4 Jan 2023)
  3. Road Traffic Infringement Agency · national governmentRoad Traffic Infringement Agency — Annual Report 2023/24 (section 4.2.1, notices captured by the JMPD)
  4. City of Johannesburg · city governmentCity of Johannesburg — Integrated Annual Report 2024/25 (JMPD Traffic Enforcement Programme)
  5. The Citizen · pressThe Citizen (Moneyweb) — The day Joburg's speed cameras went awol (26 Jan 2026)
  6. Sunday World · pressSunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
  7. Sowetan · pressSowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
  8. Eyewitness News · pressEyewitness News — Joburg motorists still without camera-based speed enforcement (22 Sep 2026)

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Claim 1 clm-ea7da1afff719fd3 quantitative
ran on a three-year service-lease contract with Syntell, awarded on 5 December 2022
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What the mapping says
TimesLIVE quotes the JMPD spokesperson confirming a three-year contract with Syntel (Pty) Ltd awarded on December 5, 2022; Sunday World describes the arrangement as a service-lease that came into effect in December 2022.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TimesLIVE — Joburg speed cameras back, more than 6000 speeding offences on new year's day (4 Jan 2023)
  2. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
Claim 2 clm-d447a70d3d458fe2 descriptive
the fixed and mobile cameras and the back office that turned their images into AARTO infringement notices belonged to the vendor
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What the mapping says
Sunday World reports that under the service-lease model the City paid Syntell for the use of its hardware, including the stationary cameras, and the back office for processing fines; the Moneyweb report says Syntell provided the cameras and back-office system and that AARTO applies in Johannesburg; the City's 2024/25 annual report lists enforcement by mobile units and static cameras.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
  2. The Citizen (Moneyweb) — The day Joburg's speed cameras went awol (26 Jan 2026)
  3. City of Johannesburg — Integrated Annual Report 2024/25 (JMPD Traffic Enforcement Programme)
Claim 3 clm-fa019a10b03cf5a1 quantitative
In 2023-24 the Road Traffic Infringement Agency's register recorded 3,884,300 notices captured by the JMPD, 3,588,982 of them camera-captured
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What the mapping says
Section 4.2.1 of the RTIA annual report gives the JMPD's 2023-2024 year total as 3,884,300 notices, with 3,588,982 under AARTO 03, the camera-captured notice type.
Caveat
The register counts notices uploaded by the JMPD in the RTIA's April-to-March year, not fines paid; it is the agency's record of the issuing authority's own captures.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Road Traffic Infringement Agency — Annual Report 2023/24 (section 4.2.1, notices captured by the JMPD)
Claim 4 clm-7ff1e12804d69ebb quantitative
The contract reached its end-of-term date on 23 December 2025; Syntell removed its cameras and systems, and the JMPD owned none
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What the mapping says
The JMPD spokesperson told Sunday World the contract was not terminated but reached its end-of-term date, after which the provider removed its resources and systems; the Moneyweb report dates the lapse to 23 December and says Syntell took its cameras and the JMPD has none of its own; the Sowetan quotes the JMPD confirming expiry on 23 December 2025.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
  2. The Citizen (Moneyweb) — The day Joburg's speed cameras went awol (26 Jan 2026)
  3. Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
Claim 5 clm-480911d6ed6722ed quantitative
As of 22 September 2026 a replacement tender was still under way, speed enforcement was manual
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What the mapping says
EWN reports on 22 September 2026 that the tender to replace the system is still under way and that officers previously on speed-camera duty were redeployed to physical policing; the Sowetan describes handwritten notices, hand-held laser devices and roadblocks in the interim.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Eyewitness News — Joburg motorists still without camera-based speed enforcement (22 Sep 2026)
  2. Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
Claim 6 clm-1bcc099ce24b5e22 quantitative
the City says its next contract will have it own the equipment — the promise it had already made in 2017
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What the mapping says
The JMPD spokesperson told the Sowetan that the City's long-term strategy is to procure and own its own enforcement equipment, and told Sunday World that not owning the equipment was a disadvantage; the City's August 2017 statement said the then-new contract would make provision for the Department to own both the system and the speed camera infrastructure.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
  2. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
  3. City of Johannesburg — Setting the record straight on speed law-enforcement in Joburg (18 Aug 2017)
Claim 7 clm-97a55e1a80449793 quantitative
The Road Traffic Infringement Agency's register shows JMPD camera notices rising from 674,296 in 2022-23 to 3,588,982 in 2023-24
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What the mapping says
The RTIA's change table for the JMPD gives AARTO 03 camera notices of 674,296 in 2022-2023 and 3,588,982 in 2023-2024.
Caveat
The 2022-23 year includes months before the Syntell cameras returned on 1 January 2023; the register counts captured notices, not paid fines.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Road Traffic Infringement Agency — Annual Report 2023/24 (section 4.2.1, notices captured by the JMPD)
Claim 8 clm-a803a47995a326bd quantitative
the City's audited statements for the year to June 2024 say the Syntell contract 'resulted in increased revenue', with fines, penalties and forfeits of R175.592 million against R148.341 million a year earlier
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impact · verbatim
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What the mapping says
Note 6 of the 2024 group statements says the traffic fines contract (SYNTELL) was in effect for the entire twelve months, which resulted in increased revenue; the statement of financial performance shows fines, penalties and forfeits of 175,592 against 148,341 (R thousand, group).
Caveat
The line covers all fines, penalties and forfeits of the group, not camera fines alone; the same note credits part of the rise to manual citations.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. City of Johannesburg — Group Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 (note 6, Fines, penalties and forfeits)
Claim 9 clm-069af689c12d0cd8 quantitative
On 1 January 2023, the first day back, the JMPD recorded 6,312 speeding cases
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What the mapping says
TimesLIVE quotes the JMPD spokesperson: the high-speed unit recorded a total of 6,312 cases of speeding on January 1 alone, after almost two years without speed cameras.
Caveat
Operator figure; the breakdown by precinct is the JMPD's own.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TimesLIVE — Joburg speed cameras back, more than 6000 speeding offences on new year's day (4 Jan 2023)
Claim 10 clm-f9edb7a570dd1f51 quantitative
the JMPD put the historical take from traffic fines at about R50 million a year
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What the mapping says
The Sowetan quotes the JMPD spokesperson saying traffic fines had historically generated about R50m annually for the municipality.
Caveat
A rounded spokesperson figure that sits beside the audited line of R175.592 million (2024) and R414.595 million (2025) for all fines, penalties and forfeits, and the press figure of almost R47 million collected in 2023/24; the sources do not say which measure each refers to.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
Claim 11 clm-580aaac7e852c6f9 quantitative
Sunday World reported an estimated R17 million lost by April 2026
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What the mapping says
Sunday World writes that the removal of the camera infrastructure left automated traffic policing offline, costing the city an estimated R17-million in lost revenue by late April 2026.
Caveat
The estimate is not attributed to a named source in the article; the JMPD said reconciliations since December 2025 were still being compiled.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
Claim 12 clm-b99c84eeed35ac35 quantitative
No source measures a road-safety effect, and the City's audited statements for the year to June 2025 credit that year's over-recovery on traffic fines to the JMPD 'shifting focus from camera reliance to deploying more personnel for vehicle stops'
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impact · verbatim
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What the mapping says
Note 6 of the 2025 group statements says traffic fines revenue exceeded budget largely due to the JMPD shifting focus from camera reliance to deploying more personnel for vehicle stops, issuing tickets and conducting additional roadblocks; none of the ten sources reports a measured change in crashes or casualties attributable to the cameras.
Caveat
The year to June 2025 ended six months before the contract lapsed; the statement is the City's own explanation of a budget variance, not an evaluation.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. City of Johannesburg — Group Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 (note 6, Fines, penalties and forfeits)
Claim 13 clm-8d0208bff3d60752 descriptive
Under the service-lease model the City paid for the use of vendor-owned hardware, so when the term ended the whole enforcement layer — cameras, image processing and the upload of other fines — left with the contractor
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What the mapping says
Sunday World describes the service-lease model under which the City paid for the use and maintenance of Syntell's hardware and says the provider removed its resources and systems at end of term; the Moneyweb report says Syntell also used to upload other traffic fines and by-law fines.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
  2. The Citizen (Moneyweb) — The day Joburg's speed cameras went awol (26 Jan 2026)
Claim 14 clm-abd84638f167ae76 descriptive
the JMPD said its officers lacked the calibrated equipment to measure exact speeds
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What the mapping says
The Sowetan reports the JMPD spokesperson saying that while officers currently lack the calibrated equipment to measure exact speeds for standard speeding fines, they can still stop, warn or arrest drivers for reckless driving.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
Claim 15 clm-7116f785b5d3d5ec descriptive
that year the City terminated a contract it found had been unlawfully extended and the provider removed the fixed cameras
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What the mapping says
The City's statement of 18 August 2017 says that in January 2017 it was discovered that the speed enforcement contract had been unlawfully extended, a decision was taken to terminate it, and as a result the service provider removed the fixed cameras.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. City of Johannesburg — Setting the record straight on speed law-enforcement in Joburg (18 Aug 2017)
Claim 16 clm-eeee25ca621e1af4 quantitative
the next contract ended in May 2021 and no speeding fines were issued until January 2023
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What the mapping says
TimesLIVE reports that motorists had not been receiving speeding fines since May 2021, after the then-provider's contract ended, and that cameras recorded violations again on 1 January 2023; Sunday World gives the same May 2021 date.
Caveat
The source page misspells the phrase as 'spending fines'; the locator copies it as printed. The identity of the 2017–2021 provider is not given in any source read.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TimesLIVE — Joburg speed cameras back, more than 6000 speeding offences on new year's day (4 Jan 2023)
  2. Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026)
Claim 17 clm-f8164ae67e54a497 quantitative
the 2017 statement had already promised a contract under which the Department would own both the system and the cameras
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What the mapping says
The 2017 statement says the new contract will make provision for the Department to own both the system and speed camera infrastructure.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. City of Johannesburg — Setting the record straight on speed law-enforcement in Joburg (18 Aug 2017)
Claim 18 clm-01647d8324d8c1ea descriptive
OUTA's Wayne Duvenage questioned whether insourcing would help a city that is 'not known for' excellent systems
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What the mapping says
The Sowetan quotes OUTA chief executive Wayne Duvenage: insourcing may be a good idea, but then you need high competence and excellent systems, which the city is not known for.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026)
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Operator
Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (City of Johannesburg); cameras and fine-processing back office supplied and owned by Syntell (Pty) Ltd under a three-year service-lease contract, December 2022 to 23 December 2025
Actor types
city-government, private
Funding model
public
Funding description
Municipal service-lease contract: the City paid Syntell for the use and maintenance of vendor-owned cameras and the fine-processing back office; contract value not published
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City of Johannesburg — Group Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2024 (note 6, Fines, penalties and forfeits) joburg.org.za · 1 linked claim

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Audited group statements. Note 6 on fines, penalties and forfeits states that the traffic fines contract (SYNTELL) was finalised and in effect for the entire twelve months of the year, which resulted in increased revenue, with better-than-expected performance on manual citations. The revenue table gives fines, penalties and forfeits of R175,592 thousand (group, 2024) against R148,341 thousand (2023). The statements carry no cover date in the text; they were released with the City's results notice in January 2025.

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City of Johannesburg — Group Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2025 (note 6, Fines, penalties and forfeits) lg.treasury.gov.za · 1 linked claim

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Audited group statements for the last full year of the contract, mirrored by National Treasury (byte-identical to the City's own copy under the 2024/25 Integrated Annual Report folder). Note 6 says traffic fines revenue exceeded budget largely because the JMPD shifted focus from camera reliance to deploying more personnel for vehicle stops, tickets and roadblocks; fines, penalties and forfeits were R414,595 thousand against a budget of R168,996 thousand and R175,592 thousand the year before. No cover date in the text.

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Road Traffic Infringement Agency — Annual Report 2023/24 (section 4.2.1, notices captured by the JMPD) rtia.co.za · 2 linked claims

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The national agency that administers AARTO, which applies in Johannesburg. Its National Contraventions Register tables show the JMPD captured 3,884,300 notices in 2023-24, of which 3,588,982 were AARTO 03 camera-captured notices, against 758,020 and 674,296 in 2022-23. The report is signed on 27 September 2024. The figures count notices uploaded by the issuing authority, not fines paid.

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City of Johannesburg — Integrated Annual Report 2024/25 (JMPD Traffic Enforcement Programme) joburg.org.za · 1 linked claim

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The City's annual report for 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. The JMPD Traffic Enforcement Programme states that the department recorded over 1.6 million speed-related violations and issued a combined 91,004 AARTO notices, and its challenges table lists expanded speed enforcement using mobile units and static cameras. Cited for the audited-year description of the camera layer and as the second count beside the RTIA and JMPD figures.

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City of Johannesburg — Setting the record straight on speed law-enforcement in Joburg (18 Aug 2017) joburg.org.za · 3 linked claims

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Public Safety department statement: in January 2017 the City found the speed enforcement contract had been unlawfully extended, terminated it, and the service provider removed the fixed cameras; the City said the new contract would make provision for the Department to own both the system and the speed camera infrastructure.

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TimesLIVE — Joburg speed cameras back, more than 6000 speeding offences on new year's day (4 Jan 2023) timeslive.co.za · 3 linked claims

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JMPD spokesperson Xolani Fihla confirms the City signed a three-year contract with Syntel (Pty) Ltd for advanced law enforcement and crash management (ALECRAM) services, awarded on December 5; the high-speed unit recorded 6,312 speeding cases on 1 January; motorists had not received speeding fines since May 2021 when the previous provider's contract ended; the City had previously put the revenue loss at about R36 million.

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The Citizen (Moneyweb) — The day Joburg's speed cameras went awol (26 Jan 2026) citizen.co.za · 3 linked claims

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Moneyweb report (Antoinette Slabbert) republished by The Citizen: three sources confirm the Syntell contract, which provided the cameras and the back-office system to process fines, lapsed on 23 December with no replacement appointed; Syntell took its cameras and the JMPD has none of its own; Syntell also uploaded other traffic and by-law fines; 3.4 million fines in the previous financial year, 3.1 million of them from speed-camera images, attributed to the RTIA annual report; 277,705 camera fines in January 2025; JMPD traffic-fine revenue of almost R47 million in 2023/24.

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Sunday World — Speedsters run amok as JMPD has no cameras (26 Apr 2026) sundayworld.co.za · 7 linked claims

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JMPD spokesperson Fihla on the record: the contract was not terminated but reached its end-of-term date, after which the provider removed its resources and systems; the service-lease model under which the City paid for the use of Syntell's hardware and its maintenance; 'not owning the equipment is a disadvantage'; the three-year contract came into effect in December 2022; the City had been unable to issue speeding tickets since May 2021; an estimated R17 million in lost revenue; DA and JMPD-insider criticism.

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Sowetan — Why Joburg speed cameras have been out of service since December (30 Aug 2026) sowetan.co.za · 6 linked claims

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JMPD confirms the service lease agreement with Syntell expired on 23 December 2025; Fihla: traffic fines historically generated about R50m a year, about 3.1 million fines in the previous reporting cycle came from camera-captured images, a further 300,000 manual fines were issued, officers lack calibrated equipment to measure exact speeds, bids are under technical evaluation, and the City's long-term strategy is to procure and own its own enforcement equipment; OUTA's Wayne Duvenage on contract renewals and insourcing.

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Eyewitness News — Joburg motorists still without camera-based speed enforcement (22 Sep 2026) ewn.co.za · 1 linked claim

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The latest source: nearly ten months after the cameras were switched off the tender to replace the system is still under way; Fihla says enforcement operations were temporarily suspended as access to back-end systems ended and the City is navigating the MFMA procurement process; officers previously on speed-camera duty were redeployed to physical policing; more than three million of the previous financial year's fines were from speed cameras; almost R47 million from all traffic fines in 2023/24.

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🇿🇦 JMPD Integrated Intelligence Operations Centre: Johannesburg's Municipal Camera Control Room · Johannesburg The JMPD's other cameras, in its Martindale control room, are city-owned and stayed; these were leased and went with the contract. 🇿🇲 RTSA Smart Traffic Law Enforcement · Lusaka Zambia scrapped a speed-camera scheme over fraud and restarted under Safe-City; Johannesburg's cameras left when the vendor's lease ended. 🇰🇿 Sergek Video Enforcement Network (now Presight) · Astana Astana's enforcement cameras, installed by a private consortium, stayed in use; Johannesburg's were leased and left with the contract.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Johannesburg's Speed Cameras: Leased from Syntell, Removed with the Contract” — Johannesburg, South Africa. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/johannesburg-jmpd-speed-cameras-syntell/ (last verified 2026-10-11). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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