{"id":15057,"date":"2012-06-11T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2012-06-12T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:24:49","slug":"afriforum-halts-e-toll-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/15057\/afriforum-halts-e-toll-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriForum halts e-toll legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfriForum<\/a> has put on hold its intended legal action on the e-tolling penalty tariff for non-registered users, the lobby group said on Monday.<\/p>\n

This came after Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele<\/a> officially withdrew the e-toll rates notice in die Government Gazette on May 31, CEO Kallie Kriel<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The penalty tariff was R1.75\/km for motorists who had not registered and acquired an e-tag.<\/p>\n

“This followed after AfriForum had sent an attorney’s letter to [Ndebele] on May 15 to say that AfriForum would institute legal steps if the notice were not withdrawn.”<\/p>\n

Kriel welcomed the withdrawal and said AfriForum would closely watch further developments. Should the fee be re-introduced, the matter would be taken up again.<\/p>\n

“The withdrawal of the rates notice now presents AfriForum’s legal team with the opportunity to submit inputs, as a friend of the court, in the case in which government is lodging an appeal against the interim order granted against the implementation of the e-toll system,” Kriel said.<\/p>\n

The penalty tariff notice was published in the Government Gazette on April 13.<\/p>\n

This was a court action separate from an interdict on April 28 that halted e-tolling pending a full judicial review.<\/p>\n

The government has since approached the Constitutional Court to appeal against the interdict.<\/p>\n

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