{"id":133396,"date":"2016-08-16T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=133396"},"modified":"2016-08-16T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T12:05:21","slug":"these-cars-are-now-also-exempt-from-paying-e-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/133396\/these-cars-are-now-also-exempt-from-paying-e-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"These cars are now also exempt from paying e-tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Government Gazette published earlier this month, states which cars are exempt from paying e-tolls &#8211; it includes light motor vehicles adapted for use by people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicles owned or used by qualifying non-government organisations (NGOs) or non-profit organisations (NPOs) are also exempt by Transport Minister, Dipuo Peters.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.za\/sites\/www.gov.za\/files\/40189_rg10624_gon897.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Gazette<\/a>, the following vehicles are exempt from paying e-tolls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adapted vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Ambulances<\/li>\n<li>Emergency medical response vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Fire-fighting\u00a0 vehicles<\/li>\n<li>NGO\u00a0 vehicles<\/li>\n<li>NPO\u00a0 vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Public transport vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Rescue vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Traffic officer vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NGO vehicles are those vehicles owned or used by a qualifying non-government organisation (NGO) used for conveying persons with disabilities or for the purposes\u00a0 of health care, welfare or humanitarian purposes or education and development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a full rebate for vehicles used by persons to convey persons with disabilities\u201a which includes persons who have long-term physical\u201a mental, intellectual or sensory impairments and includes medical conditions such as autism\u201a mental health\u201a epilepsy and loss of hearing,&#8221; the South African National Roads Agency Limited said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/133136\/foreign-group-acquires-full-control-of-sa-e-toll-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Foreign group acquires full control of SA e-toll companies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/122697\/you-have-another-two-weeks-to-get-the-60-e-toll-discount\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Road users \u201cflock\u201d to pay e-tolls for 60% discount<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/123245\/e-tolls-not-going-anywhere-transport-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>E-tolls not going anywhere: transport minister<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Government Gazette published earlier this month, states which cars are exempt from paying e-tolls &#8211; it includes light motor vehicles adapted for use by people with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[1804,26,429],"class_list":["post-133396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133396","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133398,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133396\/revisions\/133398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}