{"id":472442,"date":"2021-03-03T07:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=472442"},"modified":"2021-03-03T07:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:28:21","slug":"gauteng-government-is-taking-a-hard-stance-on-e-tolls-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/472442\/gauteng-government-is-taking-a-hard-stance-on-e-tolls-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng government is taking a hard stance on e-tolls: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gauteng provincial government has made formal submissions to the national government indicating its rejection of the implementation of e-tolls, the Citizen<\/a> <\/strong>reported.<\/p>\n

Gauteng MEC Jacob Mamabolo told the paper that the province is working with the national government to ensure e-tolls are stopped due to concerns of the financial impact of the system on motorists.<\/p>\n

“We have made a very comprehensive submission to the president, the minister of finance and that of transport which we believe can resolve the e-toll matter once and for all.<\/p>\n

“We have made a compelling case clearly stating that it is incorrect for residents of our province to be burdened with paying for e-tolls.”<\/p>\n

Mamabolo said that his government is also opposed to the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act as a means of enforcing e-tolls in the province.<\/p>\n

In February, transport minister Fikile Mbalula confirmed<\/a> <\/strong>that his department is working towards a final answer on e-tolls.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are equally enjoined to finalise the funding and tariff structure on the\u00a0Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) by the end of this financial year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

E-tolls have met with resistance from road users since inception in 2013, leading to non-payment by many, and calls to scrap the system altogether.<\/p>\n

In October 2020, Mbalula said that his department is being impeded from rolling out new road infrastructure projects because of a lack of resolution around e-tolls.<\/p>\n

The minister said that president Ramaphosa\u2019s cabinet is set to finalise a new funding model for the project after receiving proposals from his department.<\/p>\n

Mbalula admitted that he thought the issue would have been resolved by now, but that the process has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Read: E-toll decision delay is now costing all of South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gauteng provincial government has made formal submissions to the national government indicating its rejection of the implementation of the e-tolls, the Citizen reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-472442","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\/472442","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=472442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472458,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472442\/revisions\/472458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}