Just got a speeding fine - on my old car after I traded it in.
Problem is I transferred my old registration number to my new car and the fine administrators didn't care about car colour or type just that I
owned a car with that number 
Lesson learnt - pull your registration number off your trade-in at the dealers
Now a major mission to get fine cancelled - and you are never sure if you have succeeded until you are arrested one day for ignoring your fine. (Which
is what they do in SA)
Surely you have the trade in documents to show when the car left your possession, and the pink slip of the v5 - or SA equiv.
Also whoever was driving your old car was doing so illegally, as it had in effect false plates on, unless its different over there....
[Edited on 22/5/09 by r1_pete]
Thats a bummer.
From what ive heard normal morality doesnt always feature in SA society. My ex boss was Rhodesian but spent most of his time in SA, he never ceased to
amaze me with his stories. No wonder he never trusted anyone.
The problem isn't to prove myself innocent in the courts - it's to get it sorted out before it reaches that stage without wasting days and
travelling several hundred miles to the town where it happened.
I of course had a lot to say to the agents - who basically said they would sort it out but because I don't trust them any more, and the
consequences will be suffered by me if they don't it means that I have to sort it out for my own peace of mind and possibly personal safety.
Here they have a system of road side number plate readers with road blocks to pick up people with cases outstanding and they pull you over and arrest
you, putting you in a holding cell with all sorts (gangsters, murderers, druggies etc) until your lawyer posts bail. And of course most are not
inclined to discuss your innocence or proof thereof before arresting you. And of course they don't notify you that the case has been withdrawn.
So mission to sort out.
SA fascinates me, it seems so westernised with number plate readers etc but then it seems to have this terrifying undercurrent of corruption and
crime.
I could be way of the mark, im just going on what louis theroux told me!
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
SA fascinates me, it seems so westernised with number plate readers etc but then it seems to have this terrifying undercurrent of corruption and crime.
I could be way of the mark, im just going on what louis theroux told me!
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Originally posted by Land Locked
quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
SA fascinates me, it seems so westernised with number plate readers etc but then it seems to have this terrifying undercurrent of corruption and crime.
I could be way of the mark, im just going on what louis theroux told me!
It's worse!!! Though I don't think I could live anywhere else.
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Originally posted by 02GF74
I take it you have never been to Bolton then?
bolten has nothing on chaventry!
Yeah - Technologically and legally SA is most probably right up there with the rest of the world - but the people administrating it all often leave a
lot to be desired - despite that, I couldn't even contemplate living anywhere else and once you've desensitised yourself to the bad the good
is so very very good.
I sometimes think that living in South Africa the popular saying should be changed to: "Ignorance is bliss and its most definitely folly to be
wise"
"Yeah - Technologically and legally SA is most probably right up there with the rest of the world - but the people administrating it all often
leave a lot to be desired"
So it's just like the UK then?
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Originally posted by skodaman
"Yeah - Technologically and legally SA is most probably right up there with the rest of the world - but the people administrating it all often leave a lot to be desired"
So it's just like the UK then?