{"id":49826,"date":"2013-11-21T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=49826"},"modified":"2013-11-21T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:22:07","slug":"da-launches-new-anti-e-toll-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/49826\/da-launches-new-anti-e-toll-billboards\/","title":{"rendered":"DA launches new anti-e-toll billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"

DA premier candidate for Gauteng, Mmusi Maimane<\/a>\u00a0has unveiled a series of new\u00a0billboards in Gauteng, to\u00a0kick-start\u00a0an “intensive campaign to mobilize Gauteng voters against the government that brought us e-tolls”.<\/p>\n

“Today I launched new billboards in Gauteng with the message: ‘A vote for the DA is a vote against e-tolls’,” the\u00a0DA member said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday (20 November), Transport Minister\u00a0Dipuo Peters<\/a>\u00a0announced that\u00a0e-tolls will commence on 3 December 2013 on Gauteng\u2019s highways.<\/p>\n

“I will take information on the costs of travelling all major routes in Gauteng directly to the people as part of a mass mobilization campaign against e-tolls.<\/p>\n

“The fact remains: people can\u2019t afford e-tolls, no matter how much Sanral says they can,” Maimane said.<\/p>\n

The DA premier candidate said that many people are refusing to buy e-tags. “This is their prerogative and their right. It is important to send out a strong message to the ANC that people don\u2019t want e-tolls.”<\/p>\n

“We can fight the further roll-out of e-tolls if we are elected to government. And, make no mistake, the ANC has plans to roll out even more e-toll gantries on our highways,” Maimane said.<\/p>\n

Last week, the DA submitted papers to the High Court. The party\u00a0is of the view that 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

“I have announced plans to fight e-tolling as Premier, including a provincial referendum so that people can make their voice heard against e-tolls. As Premier, I am prepared to interdict the next phase of e-tolls that will see gantries go up on a further 300km of roads, including major routes like the Ben Schoeman Highway.”<\/p>\n

“We have also gone to court to have the e-tolling Bill sent back to Parliament on the basis that it was unconstitutionally passed,” Maimane said.<\/p>\n

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The DA has unveiled a series of new billboards in Gauteng, to kickstart an “intensive campaign to mobilize Gauteng voters against the government that brought us e-tolls”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1875,1329,6646,4615,1804,26,5159,429],"class_list":["post-49826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-dipuo-peters","tag-e-tags","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-mmusi-maimane","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826","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=49826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49834,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826\/revisions\/49834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}