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ran on a three-year service-lease contract with Syntell, awarded on 5 December 2022
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ran on a three-year service-lease contract with Syntell, awarded on 5 December 2022
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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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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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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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As of 22 September 2026 a replacement tender was still under way, speed enforcement was manual
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the City says its next contract will have it own the equipment — the promise it had already made in 2017
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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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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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On 1 January 2023, the first day back, the JMPD recorded 6,312 speeding cases
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the JMPD put the historical take from traffic fines at about R50 million a year
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Sunday World reported an estimated R17 million lost by April 2026
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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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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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the JMPD said its officers lacked the calibrated equipment to measure exact speeds
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that year the City terminated a contract it found had been unlawfully extended and the provider removed the fixed cameras
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the next contract ended in May 2021 and no speeding fines were issued until January 2023
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the 2017 statement had already promised a contract under which the Department would own both the system and the cameras
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OUTA's Wayne Duvenage questioned whether insourcing would help a city that is 'not known for' excellent systems
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src-ce9492fbbfd01b85Audited 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.
src-89286873abec7b17Audited 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.
src-335abbeb2da3a987The 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.
src-ea2dfcf6248a0b0aThe 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.
src-beced0abc682f523Public 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.
src-ca3a2f39e65bf61fJMPD 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.
src-559f526188136ab0Moneyweb 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.
src-0a4b301b023fa065JMPD 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.
src-a40f18c4fdbb2a49JMPD 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.
src-78cc41027eabc837The 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.