{"id":260463,"date":"2018-07-24T08:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=260463"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:16:38","slug":"its-final-e-tolls-will-be-scrapped-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/260463\/its-final-e-tolls-will-be-scrapped-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s final – e-tolls will be scrapped: ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following reports that the African National Congress (ANC) is looking to scrap e-tolls in Gauteng, the party has now confirmed that it is actively taking steps at reviewing the controversial system.<\/p>\n

This is according to\u00a0newly elected deputy chairperson of the ANC in Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, who was speaking to Talk Radio 702’s<\/a> <\/strong>Karima Brown on Monday (23 July).<\/p>\n

Lesufi said that the\u00a0people of Gauteng are still opposed to e-tolls, and that many have advised that the system is in need of\u00a0a complete overhaul.<\/p>\n

He said that following recent conference talks, the Gauteng ANC planned to publish a formal stance on the termination of e-tolls sometime in August 2018.<\/p>\n

“On the basis of this advice we felt that we should allow this debate to die forever,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The conference has taken a very firm decision to ensure that e-tolls are terminated immediately. We just need to put a mechanism in place to realise this decision”.<\/p>\n

However, Lesufi avoided the question of\u00a0how Gauteng’s roads will be funded and maintained going forward, instead stating that the province first needs to ‘let go’ of the current system.<\/p>\n

“The reality is these e-tolls are unpopular with our people and as a popular movement, how do we go the opposite direction of that particular feeling,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have taken a decision, let those e-tolls be terminated and let the team that will manage this process engage on those modalities to check the costs, the running and all other related matters.”<\/p>\n

Alternative uses for gantries?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesufi noted that a series of discussions had also surrounded the logistics of scrapping the system – notably what would happen to the gantries left standing following the scrapping of e-tolls.<\/p>\n

Some of the proposals include the continued use of gantries to help fight crime, as well as a monitoring system to help measure the flow of traffic in the province.<\/p>\n

“The majority of crime activities in our province involve a motor vehicle – either it is hijacked or stolen and used in a separate crime,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The argument is instead of using a ‘stone-age’, we should engrave the number plates so that gantries can read them, and if the car is stolen it can be tracked.”<\/p>\n

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The Gauteng ANC plans to publish a formal notice on the termination of e-tolls sometime in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-260463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260463","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=260463"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260517,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260463\/revisions\/260517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}