{"id":49771,"date":"2013-11-20T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=49771"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:51:53","slug":"e-tolls-to-help-fight-apartheid-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/49771\/e-tolls-to-help-fight-apartheid-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"E-tolls to help fight apartheid legacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transport Minister\u00a0Dipuo Peters<\/a>\u00a0fired a political broadside on Wednesday (20 November) suggesting that the\u00a0implementation of\u00a0e-tolls on Gauteng’s freeways could help\u00a0reverse the legacy of colonialism and apartheid planning.<\/p>\n

The minister\u00a0announced that\u00a0e-tolls will commence on 3 December 2013, as part of\u00a0the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.<\/p>\n

In delivering a progress report on the much\u00a0criticized initiative,\u00a0Peters said: “We have learnt many lessons from this project, one of them being that it will take some time to reverse the legacy of colonialism and apartheid planning.”<\/p>\n

“Apartheid spatial planning never envisaged a situation where Gauteng will be as populated as it is today, mainly due to the influx of people from different provinces for economic reasons.”<\/p>\n

Government has listened\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peters said that by dropping tariffs for road\u00a0users,\u00a0government had listened to the\u00a0public.<\/p>\n

“Government has made several concessions as part of our efforts to minimise the financial burden on the users of the Gauteng e-tolled road network.”<\/p>\n

“Tariffs have been reduced and registered public transport exempted.”<\/p>\n

“Treasury has allocated funds to the project to ensure reductions in the toll tariffs. We have moved from 66 cents per kilometer to the current 30 cents for light motor vehicles for registered road users who are in possession of an e-tag.” Peters said.<\/p>\n

“This is an indication that indeed this government cares for its people and has listened to the concerns raised by the public,” the minister said.<\/p>\n

“We wish to thank those who have already registered and are in possession of their e-tags. We encourage motorists who haven’t registered to do so. Unregistered motorists will be levied almost double the cost per kilometer,” Peters said.<\/p>\n

DA responds<\/strong><\/p>\n

DA Premier Candidate for Gauteng,\u00a0Mmusi Maimane<\/a>, on Tuesday (19 November) outlined his\u00a0plan to fight e-tolling in Gauteng as part of a campaign ahead of \u00a0the 2014 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to fight against this system at every turn,\u201d Maimane said.<\/p>\n

Last week, the DA\u00a0submitted papers to the High Court claiming\u00a0that the \u201ce-tolling\u201d Bill was incorrectly passed by Parliament and signed into law by President Jacob Zuma.\u00a0The party believes that it was incorrectly tagged and should be declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The DA said it will unveil new anti-e-tolling billboards, having\u00a0commissioned\u00a0similar billboards to be erected along Johannesburg\u2019s highways next to e-toll gantries in October.<\/p>\n

\"ANC<\/a>

ANC e-tolls billboard<\/p><\/div>\n

More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n

DA warns of e-tolls phase 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

E-tolls get a start date<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New anti-e-toll billboards coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has suggested that the implementation of e-tolls on Gauteng’s freeways could help reverse the legacy of colonialism and apartheid planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6646,1912,1804,26,5159],"class_list":["post-49771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-dipuo-peters","tag-e-tag","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-mmusi-maimane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49771","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=49771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49781,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49771\/revisions\/49781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}