ANC vows to ‘permanently terminate’ e-tolls — to the fury of those who pay them
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has welcomed a resolution by the Gauteng ANC to scrap e-tolls. Newly elected ANC provincial deputy chairman Panyaza Lesufi said on Monday that a resolution was taken at the ANC provincial conference in Johannesburg at the weekend to scrap e-tolls. He said a task-team would be set up to ensure the decision become a reality. Outa said e-tolls were “too much” of a financial burden on motorists and commuters. “Outa has been opposing the e-toll scheme since 2012 and it appears that government has now realised the extent of the scheme’s failure‚” the organisation said in a statement. “Outa has previously written extensive reports on why the e-toll scheme would fail and recently delivered a comprehensive report to the presidency and the ministers of the economic cluster‚ showing that e-tolls have failed and that it now costs the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) more to collect outstanding e-toll fees than it ultimately collects from mot...
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