Raise your IQ, Sanral tells e-toll users
Justice Project South Africa lead, Howard Dembovsky has called for the dismissal of Sanral spokesman, Vusi Mona, for “highly disrespectful and arrogant” comments made to a member of the public who voiced concern over the much maligned e-toll system.
The call follows an on-air comment made by Mona in response to a query raised by a Talk Radio 702 listener on Wednesday (15 January).
The listener SMSed into the station asking the Sanral spokesman how people could make sure that text messages received from Sanral regarding e-tolls were not a scam.
Mona responded: “Very easy. Raise your IQ a little bit…”
“As a public servant and an employee of a State Owned Enterprise, Mr Mona has a duty to demonstrate respect for members of the public and he should know better than to openly and blatantly insult a member of the public who was simply asking a legitimate question of him,” JPSA’s Dembovsky said in a statement.
“At no time during the course of his interview with [702’s] Gushwell Brooks did Mr Mona apologise for his utterance. Instead, he tried to justify it by saying that people should ‘exercise common sense’.”
According to JPSA, Mona has alluded to “low IQs” on a number of occasions when talking to journalists about e-tolls, and has called on Mona to resign, or failing that, for the ministry of transport to dismiss him.
“Clearly [Mona] has no respect for the public he is supposed to serve – not hurl insults at,” the group said.
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