Sanral is wasting taxpayer money on litigation, City of Cape Town’s Herron says
City’s legal costs in the Winelands tolling matter total over R20m, as Sanral asks for leave to appeal to top court
The City of Cape Town has accused the country’s national roads agency of wasting taxpayers’ money on more litigation, in its bid to toll sections of the N1 and N2 freeways. The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) informed the city on Thursday that it had filed an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court, after losing earlier legal battles with the city. Mayoral committee member for transport for the city Brett Herron accused Sanral on Thursday of being "hell bent" on wasting taxpayers’ money. "As of September 20 this year — after four-and-a-half years of legal battles against Sanral – the City’s legal costs in the Winelands tolling matter stood at R20‚653‚756‚" said Herron. "This amount does not include Sanral’s legal costs‚ neither those of other national government departments involved in prior litigation." The city has defeated Sanral in previous court skirmishes‚ since launching an application on March 28 to set aside approvals that enabled th...
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