Lesufi sets deadline for scrapping of e-tolls in Gauteng
After years of going back and forth about getting rid of e-tolls and to settle a debt of more than R47 billion, Lesufi set the date during his State of the Province Address (SOPA).
FILE: An e-tolls gantry on the highway in Gauteng. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has set 31 March this year as the deadline for the final scrapping of the e-tolls.
The contentious electronic tolling system went live on some of the province's freeways in 2013 to fund a highway upgrade programme.
After years of going back and forth about getting rid of e-tolls and to settle a debt of more than R47 billion, Lesufi set the date during his State of the Province Address (SOPA).
"We held a meeting with the minister of finance, with the minister of transport, all of us now have reached an agreement that by the 31st of March this year, the formal process to switch off and delink e-tolls will begin and e-tolls will be history in our province. The minister of finance will elaborate on this subject."