{"id":11967,"date":"2012-05-09T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T08:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T09:51:49","slug":"public-protector-to-assess-da-e-toll-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/11967\/public-protector-to-assess-da-e-toll-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Public protector to assess DA e-toll request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela<\/a> has agreed to consider the DA’s request for a probe into the Gauteng e-tolling contracts, the party said on Wednesday (9 May 2012).<\/p>\n

“Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has responded to my request for an investigation into the Gauteng e-toll contracts, including a possible link with arms deal corruption,” Democratic Alliance<\/a> Gauteng caucus leader Jack Bloom said.<\/p>\n

He received an e-mail from her on Wednesday morning to say the matter would be assessed to establish jurisdiction and merit, among other things.<\/p>\n

“Like the arms deal, questions about possible corruption in the e-toll contracts will not go away until there is a credible investigation,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Speculation that something is being hidden has increased with the unexplained resignation of [SA National Roads Agency Limited<\/a>] CEO Nazir Alli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The truth needs to come out.”<\/p>\n

The protector’s spokeswoman Kgalalelo Msibi confirmed the communication with Bloom.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the DA said it had asked for an investigation on the grounds that suspicion was high that politically-connected people may have benefited from the plan to toll major highways around Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Bloom said there were reportedly allegations of links between Swedish companies involved in an arms deal and Austrian company Kapsch TrafficCom<\/a>. He said there were also 35 sub-contracts with confidentiality clauses.<\/p>\n

Alli resigned suddenly on Monday, just over a week after the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa)<\/a> was granted an urgent interdict to stop the launch of tolling on 185km of highways around Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

The project has since been put on hold and it is not yet clear what Sanral’s next move will be.<\/p>\n

Reasons were not given for Alli’s resignation. He will remain in office until June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has agreed to consider the DA’s request for a probe into the Gauteng e-tolling contracts, the party said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,2709,427,1968,2708],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-arms-deal","tag-e-toll","tag-public-protector","tag-thuli-madonesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","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=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions\/11969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}