The eThekwini municipality has been given 60 days to make sure the sky car over Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium is safe, after it got stuck, leaving people stranded.
"The municipality was issued a contravention notice and given 60 days to improve on the things highlighted during the inspection," the Labour Department chief inspector Thobile Lamati said in a statement.
Lamati went to have a look following media reports and complaints that people got stuck in the sky car, which runs along the 350m-long arch that straddles the length of the stadium, during a trip.
The department found the indemnity notice at the stadium for the sky car had no legal standing.
"The municipality has a responsibility to ensure safety and to have a safety plan," Lamati said.
He found there was no preventative maintenance plan for the sky car's hydraulic brakes and that they were not regularly checked, which could cause them to jam.
After 60 days the department would return to the stadium to ensure all concerns they had raised had been fixed.
Moses Mabhida is one of the 2010 World Cup stadiums.
The city's municipal manager Mike Sutcliffe said safety was the city's priority.
"What I can say is the sky car is safe. We have had no instruction to close it down." - Sapa