Air Transport has put a lot of effort into the Year 2000 project to ensure a safe environment for passengers and for the safe transportation of goods. Aircraft operating in South African airspace will not have any date-related problem. In addition, South African pilots are trained and examined on manual mode and will be able to fly on manual mode when needed. All the signalling control systems are fail-safe. The power supply to most of the centres are doubled up and Year 2000 compliant.
Every region has a comprehensive manual backup system to manage trains.
Spoornet is also a business unit of the Transnet group. The remediation of mission critical systems have been completed. The potential for Year 2000 problems in embedded equipment were identified within the train signalling systems. Spoornet has put considerable effort into the identification of Year 2000 affected systems and equipment in order to understand and value the impact of Year 2000 on the organisation. Again, Spoornet is also ready.