{"id":13408,"date":"2012-05-23T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2012-05-24T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T11:55:09","slug":"cosatu-not-benefiting-from-e-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/13408\/cosatu-not-benefiting-from-e-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosatu not benefiting from e-tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

A company in which Cosatu’s<\/a> investment arm Kopano Ke Matla had a stake in was not involved in the implementation of e-tolls, the trade union federation said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Raubex<\/a>, the firm in which Kopano Ke Matla has a three percent stake, was involved in the construction of roads that were later e-tolled, and not at all in the implementation of e-tolls themselves,” the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) national spokesman Patrick Craven said in a statement.<\/p>\n

This followed a report in The Times newspaper earlier that Cosatu was “embarrassed” when it was revealed that Kopano Ke Matla had a stake in a company that was benefiting from the e-tolling of roads.<\/p>\n

Last month, it was reported that Raubex won a tender to build the R21, which formed part of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.<\/p>\n

Raubex received R800 million for the project.<\/p>\n

Kopano Ke Matla would have received R24 million as a result of its three percent share, according to the report.<\/p>\n

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