Document SRC-1010
Stellenbosch Municipality implements new trial parking system (MatieMedia / SMF)
- Original address
- https://www.matiemedia.org/stellenbosch-municipality-implements-new-trial-parking-system/
- Retrieved
- 29 October 2026
- Archived copy
- An archived copy is held by the project
- Why it matters
- SPS contract expiry 30 Sep 2021; 61 temporary law enforcement officers; R440 000 CWDM grant; tariffs; SPS allegations
Original document
Claims citing this document
- VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown The municipal spokesperson, Stuart Grobbelaar, told MatieMedia (Oct 2021) that the SPS contract was a "normal fixed-term contract [...] that simply expired" on 30 September 2021, and that the municipality was managing CBD parking itself "for the time being"; MatieMedia reported, citing Mayco minutes of 15 Sep 2021, that a R440 000 Cape Winelands District grant for CBD safety would kickstart the project.
- VerifiedEditor-approved SPS owner Zunade Loghdey told MatieMedia (Oct 2021) that SPS had enquired several times in July about extending its contract and that "Stellenbosch municipality never responded"; he claimed that the municipality's new system had shortened attendant hours from 08:00-17:00 to 08:00-15:30, which could result in a loss of municipal income, and that there had been no objections to keeping SPS when the public could comment after the July council meeting. The municipal spokesperson, Stuart Grobbelaar, told MatieMedia the contract was a "normal fixed-term contract [...] that simply expired"; he did not respond to MatieMedia's queries about Loghdey's claims, and the municipality declined to "become involved in a public to and throw [sic] with a previous service provider".
- CorroboratedEditor-approved After the SPS contract expired, the municipality ran a trial parking system managed by law enforcement officers and parking attendants appointed by the municipality, according to Council minutes of 24 Aug 2021 as cited by MatieMedia.
- VerifiedEditor-approved Figure: stage unknown In Oct 2021 the municipal spokesperson told MatieMedia that tariffs were 'exactly the same as before': off-street, the first 30 minutes free then R8 an hour; on-street, 'the first 30 minutes costs R4'. A resident complained publicly of an 'R8.00 parking fee for four minutes of parking' in Plein Street, saying the guard told him it was 'R8 [for] 0-1 hour'. The CITP 2022-2026 records that the on-street tariff was reduced 'from R8 per hour to R4 per hour due to political pressure exerted after the initial increase to R8'.