{"id":48749,"date":"2013-11-01T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=48749"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T11:52:19","slug":"e-tolls-collection-company-ceo-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/48749\/e-tolls-collection-company-ceo-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"E-tolls collection company CEO resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO at Electronic Tolling Collection,\u00a0the\u00a0company\u00a0providing\u00a0collection services for the\u00a0e-tolls project in Gauteng,\u00a0Salahdin Yacoubi has resigned after nearly five years with the company.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Surkont has taken over as CEO of ETC, the company set up in 2009 to deliver a 10 year contract to provide toll collection services across 185 km of renovated highways in Gauteng province.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet clear why Yacoubi resigned, as messages were directed towards\u00a0Surkont&#8217;s email address.<\/p>\n<p>ETC is a\u00a0joint venture between black empowered company, Traffic Management Technologies (TMT) and Austrian e-tolling company, Kapsch TrafficCom.<\/p>\n<p>Surkont was previously general manager for Intelleigent Transport Solutions at Traffic Management Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/E-tolls-operator-boss-quits-20131031\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/E-tolls-operator-boss-quits-20131031\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a>,\u00a0National roads agency Sanral, Yacoubi\u2019s resignation would have no impact on its contract with ETC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sanral has a contract with ETC and the resignation of its CEO has no impact on that contract. 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