Municipal strike affects vehicle registrations

All service centres in Gauteng were closed during the last week of July due to the municipal strike, and this had a marked effect on vehicle registrations. Only 32 578 such transactions were recorded on the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS) in the week of 27 to 31 July. This is a decrease of 44% compared to the weekly average (58 240) recorded in the preceding three weeks. The effect of the strike notwithstanding, the total transaction count rose by 7.17% in July 2009 as compared to the previous month. July also saw the introduction of vehicle licence renewals at participating post offices in Gauteng (more information here). New vehicle registrations showed a month-on-month decrease of 4.3% and a substantial year-on year decrease of 40.08%. Used vehicle registrations remained fairly constant with a slight month-on-month decrease of 0.3% and a year-on-year decrease of 7.4%. The Johannesburg user group performed the most transactions (681 090) followed by Pretoria (658 672), the City of Cape Town (626 216), Ekurhuleni (587 041) and Durban (375 827). With 94 878 transactions First National Bank was the most active non-government entity using a system-to-system interface, followed by Mercedes-Benz of SA (48 662), BMW SA (44 515), TransUnion HPI (39 506) and Volkswagen of SA (38 706). Related content: eNaTIS expands service footprint Full transaction statistics for July 2009 Live vehicle population: June/July 2009 New vehicle registrations, July 2009 (including year-on-year movements) Used vehicle registrations, July 2009 (including year-on-year movements)