{"id":47848,"date":"2013-10-18T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=47848"},"modified":"2013-10-18T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:31:12","slug":"outa-will-not-appeal-e-toll-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/47848\/outa-will-not-appeal-e-toll-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Outa will not appeal e-toll ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition To Urban Tolling Alliance (<a title=\"Outa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1949-OUTA-Opposition-to-Urban-Tolling-Alliance\">Outa<\/a>)<em>\u00a0<\/em>chair <a title=\"Wayne Duvenage\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1723-Wayne-Duvenage\">Wayne Duvenage<\/a> has announced that he will not continue a legal battle against e-tolling in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that Duvenage cited a lack of funds amongst the reasons for not taking the matter further.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the Supreme Court of Appeal&#8217;s dismissal of an appeal by Outa to scrap the\u00a0controversial\u00a0system earlier this month (October).<\/p>\n<p>The proposed tariffs for e-tolling were published in the Government Gazette following the court&#8217;s decision and the public has 30 days to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister <a title=\"Dipuo Peters\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10177-Dipuo-Peters\">Dipuo Peters<\/a>, has said that the system could be implemented before the end of the year, despite a backlash from public, the <a title=\"DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1696-DA-Democratic-Alliance\">DA<\/a>, and <a title=\"Cosatu\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1652-Cosatu\">Cosatu<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Stop e-toll negativity: Sanral CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/47808\/stop-e-toll-negativity-sanral-ceo\/\"><strong>Stop e-toll negativity: Sanral CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E-toll courts proposal a \u201cslap in the face\u201d for SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/47717\/e-toll-courts-proposal-a-slap-in-the-face-for-sa\/\"><strong>E-toll courts proposal a \u201cslap in the face\u201d for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What if you don\u2019t pay e-tolls?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/47183\/what-if-you-dont-pay-e-tolls\/\"><strong>What if you don\u2019t pay e-tolls?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"People want e-tolls: Transport Minister\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/46994\/people-want-e-tolls-transport-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>People want e-tolls: Transport Minister<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outa chair Wayne Duvenage has announced that he will not continue a legal battle against e-tolling in Gauteng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1470,1329,6646,1804,26,1988],"class_list":["post-47848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cosatu","tag-da","tag-dipuo-peters","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-outa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47848","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=47848"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47857,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47848\/revisions\/47857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}