{"id":13326,"date":"2012-05-23T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T06:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13326"},"modified":"2012-05-23T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T09:03:51","slug":"e-toll-case-heading-to-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/13326\/e-toll-case-heading-to-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"E-toll case heading to Constitutional Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several parties, including government, have launched a Constitutional Court appeal against an interdict temporarily halting the e-toll project, Outa<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that we received affidavits for the Constitutional Court, and we are currently looking at them,” Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance spokesman Wayne Duvenhage<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

He said the government’s affidavit dealt with the economic impact of the interdict.<\/p>\n

“Their [government’s] argument is based around its right to introduce policy that it deems appropriate. If they can’t do that, then they say it could damage the country’s economy.<\/p>\n

“We are arguing that it is not the court interdict that is the issue, it is about the poor decisions around e-tolling. Government cannot introduce policies that are oppressive on the country’s people. Policies need to be reasonable,” he said.<\/p>\n

The High Court in Pretoria halted the e-toll project in Gauteng on April 28, preventing the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (Sanral)<\/a> from levying or collecting e-tolls pending the outcome of a judicial review.<\/p>\n

Sanral CEO Nazir Alli<\/a> resigned on May 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several parties, including government, have launched a Constitutional Court appeal against an interdict temporarily halting the e-toll project, Outa 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":[25,1875,2902,427,10333,429],"class_list":["post-13326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-anc","tag-constitutional-court","tag-e-toll","tag-government","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326","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=13326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13338,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions\/13338"}],"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=13326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}