Motorists are expected to pay within seven days after receiving e-toll bills or they would be handed over to debt collectors, Sanral chief executive Nazir Alli said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“There are incentives included within the debt collection process that includes registering and getting an e-tag,” Alli told reporters at a briefing in Midrand on e-tolling readiness.<\/p>\n
The briefing took place at the operations centre of the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral).<\/p>\n
“If debt collection fails, the Criminal Procedure Act will come into effect and such motorists will receive summons to that effect.”<\/p>\n
The e-tolling system will commence on December 3.<\/p>\n
Those who registered for e-tags would receive a 40 percent discount on the tariffs, Alli said.<\/p>\n
Transport Minister Dipuo Peters criticised those who opposed e-tolling and said it was time they moved on.<\/p>\n
The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) was misleading motorists, she said.<\/p>\n
The union criticised e-tolling after Peters announced the December 3 date, saying road users should refrain from voting for the ANC at next year’s general elections.<\/p>\n
“I did not expect a union to say such. We will need more roads and good infrastructure even after the elections.<\/p>\n
“Numsa is misleading the public, unless it wants to tell us that it is transforming itself into a political party…”<\/p>\n
Peters labelled the Democratic Alliance as “politically bankrupt” for putting up anti-tolling billboards along the highways.<\/p>\n
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