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Govt has little space to manoeuvre when it comes to e-tolls: economists
Once again, there's much anticipation that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will make an announcement scrapping e-tolls when he delivers his Budget Speech on...
Gauteng Premier David Makhura was delivering his 2020 State of the Province Address at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Ga-Rankuwa.
The 2020 State of the Province Address will be held at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Ga-Rankuwa.
Fikile Mbalula said Cabinet was busy assessing a number of options for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, the project that has as its core a system of e-tolls.
There was mudslinging civil disobedience campaigns protests and political infighting over e-tolls.
According to the road agency's financial statements, Sanral has only been able to collect R4.5 billion to date; well below their R16 billion target.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula is part of a presidential task team formed to find a solution to the debacle, which has seen outright public defiance of the e-tolling system.
Democratic Alliance Gauteng premier candidate Solly Msimanga held a bonfire outside the Sanral offices in Centurion where he burned 3,800 e-toll statements.
On Wednesday, Gauteng motorists rejoiced when roads agency Sanral, announced it had stopped pursuing historic e-toll debt.
The ETC’s Coenie Vermaak said that defaulting e-toll users are given ample opportunity to settle their accounts.
Gauteng premier candidate Solly Msimanga says he has it on good authority that the toll collection agency Electronic Toll Collections contract was extended which means e-tolls won’t be scrapped.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura's spokesperson Thabo Masebe says the premier did what he could and it’s now up to President Cyril Ramaphosa to decide on the matter.