E-TOLL LEGAL HURDLES
Sanral girds for legal battle with motorists
The roads agency gears up for a fight with nonpayers and Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse to recover R6.2bn in outstanding e-toll debt
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has prepared 6,286 summonses in a bid to recover R6.2bn in outstanding e-toll debt from Gauteng motorists. Sanral is also gearing up for its legal fight with the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) over an e-toll test case, which could provide final clarity on how the user-pays principle should be applied. Sanral has R38bn in debt that has to be serviced and it has battled for years to get buy-in for e-tolls from Gauteng motorists. This often jeopardised its capital-raising efforts when it went to market. Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona said the parastatal held a successful bond auction in September 2016, which was oversubscribed and ensured Sanral had sufficient cash flow for 2017. The parastatal was scheduling bond auctions for 2017, with the first one mooted for March, he said. The agency has a R197bn road maintenance backlog to clear and needs all the funding it can get to make this possible. Mona confirmed Sanral had prepared the 6,...
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