South African emergency number tender blunder
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has revealed that a simple administrative error led to the failure to extend the validity of a long-running tender bidding process for a 10111 Integrated Management System.
The State Information Technology...
10111 emergency call centre crashes in Gqeberha after fire
Load-shedding, staff and vehicle shortages, and then a fire which gutted one of the computers: the police emergency call centre in Gqeberha has been plagued with problems.
On Thursday the 10111 line was still not operating after the...
10111 police emergency number broken: DA
The 10111 police emergency number is broken in the Western Cape, according to the DA – which has launched a campaign to fix it.
Who you gonna call?
19 Apr 2014
Rowan Philp
KWAZULU-NATAL’S middle-class residents are turning their backs on the police 10111 system, with at least 70% now calling community or security call centres first in emergencies.
Weekend Witness traced a dozen emergencies this month back to the...