Telkom vehicle registration

Tommygun

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A couple of questions.
Why does the country have different registration costs depending on the province in which you register the vehicle in? Surely it should be the same for the whole country?
What gets my goat (no I never owned one) is that I bought a second hand car in Sommerset west here in the Cape and was told I had to re register it as I lived in Cape town...So I went through all the associated costs including the buying of new license plates however...every Telkom van I see anywhere in the country is registered in the Eastern Cape! I realize that costs for registration are the cheapest in the EC and the business sense in the move but it strikes me as iniquitous. How can they get away with it and not us consumers?
On another note, is it just me or are all EC drivers (Telkom not included) really rubbish?
 
They can get away with it because the vehicles are all "bought" and registered in the EC at whatever branch of Telscum is based there.

As for you having to re-register the car you bought.. Did you buy it from a dealer? If so, then that obligation should have been theres to take care of.
 
Ahhh, ok then yeah.. you are required to re-register the vehicle in your name, and if the plates were not from your area, it is your responsibility to get new plates matching your area.
 
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