{"id":11035,"date":"2012-04-26T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2012-04-29T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T20:57:06","slug":"anc-halts-e-tolls-ahead-of-expected-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/11035\/anc-halts-e-tolls-ahead-of-expected-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC halts e-tolls ahead of expected court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauteng e-tolling system has been put on hold for a month, the ANC said on Thursday (26 April 2012).<\/p>\n<p>It said it reached an agreement to this effect with the <a title=\"Cosatu\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1652-Cosatu\">Congress of SA Trade Unions<\/a> in a meeting earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leadership has collectively agreed to postpone the implementation of the e-toll collection system by a month,&#8221; the ruling <a title=\"ANC - African National Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2387-ANC-African-National-Congress\">African National Ciongress<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will give the task team more time to explore alternative funding mechanisms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruling expected Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A ruling on whether the e-tolling of Gauteng&#8217;s highways will go-ahead next week will be handed down in the High Court in Pretoria on Saturday (28 April 2012).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I plan to give judgment at 11am on Saturday,&#8221; Judge Bill Prinsloo said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The matter stands until then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/10999\/e-tolling-is-a-rational-decision-sanral\/\"><strong>E-tolling is a rational decision: SANRAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/10933\/e-tolls-are-the-only-option-says-government\/\"><strong>E-tolls are the only option, says government<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/10894\/e-toll-opposition-gains-momentum\/\"><strong>E-toll opposition gains momentum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/10883\/e-toll-case-urgent-says-judge\/\"><strong>E-toll case urgent says judge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/10803\/e-toll-court-proceedings-heads-into-day-two\/\"><strong>E-toll court proceedings head into day two<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/10721\/e-toll-interdict-application-to-be-heard\/\"><strong>E-toll interdict application to be heard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauteng e-tolling system has been put on hold for a month, the ANC said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,1875,427,10333,429],"class_list":["post-11035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-anc","tag-e-toll","tag-government","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11110,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions\/11110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}