{"id":53550,"date":"2014-02-24T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53550"},"modified":"2014-02-24T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:36:31","slug":"e-tolls-cost-taxpayers-millions-in-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/53550\/e-tolls-cost-taxpayers-millions-in-legal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"E-tolls cost taxpayers millions in legal fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court cases involving e-tolling on Gauteng highways have cost the taxpayer over R6 million in legal fees, according to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The total amount spent on the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) case is R5,786,643.87 and on the Tollgate Action Group (TKA) case R229,568.00,&#8221; he said in a written reply to a parliamentary question, tabled on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reply, the cases involved the State Attorney and six private advocates, two of whom were &#8220;on brief for the full duration of the matter&#8221; over the past two years.<br \/>\nThe question was posed by Freedom Front Plus MP Anton Alberts.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Outa is wrong about e-tag sales: Sanral\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/53502\/outa-is-wrong-about-e-tag-sales-sanral\/\"><strong>Outa is wrong about e-tag sales: Sanral<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Don\u2019t just listen to Sanral, Outa urges MPs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/53269\/dont-just-listen-to-sanral-outa-urges\/\"><strong>Don\u2019t just listen to Sanral, Outa urges MPs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why e-tolls are unconstitutional\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52965\/why-e-tolls-are-unconstitutional\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why e-tolls are unconstitutional<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why e-tolls are ridiculous: economist\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52674\/why-e-tolls-are-ridiculous-economist\/\"><strong>Why e-tolls are ridiculous: economist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E-tolls blamed for the rise in cloned plates\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52255\/e-tolls-blamed-for-cloned-plates-rise\/\"><strong>E-tolls blamed for the rise in cloned plates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sanral processing 3 million transactions daily\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52315\/sanral-processing-3-million-transactions-daily\/\"><strong>Sanral processing 3 million transactions daily<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court cases involving e-tolling on Gauteng highways have cost the taxpayer over R6 million in legal fees, according to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,1988,429],"class_list":["post-53550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-outa","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53552,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550\/revisions\/53552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}