V-TRAC IN COURT OVER UNPAID SPTC BILLS

MBABANE – Alleged failure to pay telephone, fax and internet services has landed V-Trac Investments (Pty) Ltd in boiling water.

The Swaziland Post and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) has instituted legal proceedings to demand payment of E57 230.01 from V-Trac Investments, interest of per annum from date of issuing the summons and costs of suit at attorney own client scale.

V-Trac Investments (defendant), a company which was carrying on business at Manzini Heights, has found itself to answer before court following an alleged oral agreement reached on October 2011 where SPTC (plaintiff) was represented by Nontsikelelo Fakudze and defendant was represented by Sipho D. Shongwe.

Summons containing allegations whose veracity will be tested by court; it was a material term of the agreement that the plaintiff would supply telephone, telefax and or internet services to the V-Trac’s different branches.
It was claimed that the defendant ought to pay the plaintiff’s services on a monthly basis. It was stated that the plaintiff duly provided the services to the different branches within the country.

“The plaintiff furnished the defendant with monthly invoices and the defendant has refused to pay.
The total outstanding amount for unpaid invoices is the sum of E57 230.51. Despite lawful demand, the defendant has breached the agreement by failing, refusing and neglecting to pay the aforementioned amount,” reads the summons in part.

The plaintiff is represented by Simelane Mtshali Attorneys in the matter pending before court.
It should be mentioned that as SPTC continues to collect debt, there has been calls to the effect that all “industry players should be able allowed to establish and invest in their own gateways infrastructure, if they so choose.”

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