E-tolls are not about to be abruptly scrapped in Gauteng. Transport Minister Blade Nzimande said "extensive discussions" are under way about e-tolls in the province‚ but said a decision to scrap them had not been made. "I want to be honest with you‚ we understand the public sentiment … but at the same time we have got another problem that many people do not want to deal with‚" he told On The Record‚ broadcast on SABC. "We owe an amount in today’s terms of R67bn. That’s the amount we owe on the building of these wonderful freeways. The issue is who is going to pay and how are we going to pay‚" he asked. Gauteng ANC deputy chairman Panyaza Lesufi said in July that a resolution had been taken‚ at the party’s provincial conference in Johannesburg‚ to set up a task team to look into scrapping e-tolls. He said e-tolls were harming the ANC brand‚ were unpopular and needed to go. The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral)‚ which manages the country’s national roads network‚ is struggl...
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