{"id":67970,"date":"2014-09-09T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67970"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:00:49","slug":"cosatu-to-set-fire-to-e-tags-e-toll-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/67970\/cosatu-to-set-fire-to-e-tags-e-toll-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosatu to set fire to e-tags, e-toll bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosatu in Gauteng will burn e-tags and bills during a protest outside Sanral&#8217;s office in Pretoria next month, provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All those who had bought the e-tags need to be afforded an opportunity to burn them,&#8221; he told reporters in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>This was a resolution made by the Congress of SA Trade Unions&#8217; (Cosatu) provincial executive committee at a meeting last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It further resolved that all those who have received their monthly bill should also be afforded the opportunity to burn them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dakile said the protest would include a drive-slow on October 18 to the SA National Roads Agency Limited&#8217;s (Sanral) office. E-tags and bills would be burnt in front of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Cosatu called on Gauteng motorists to not buy e-tags or pay their bills.<\/p>\n<p>Dakile said motorists should not be bullied by what he called &#8220;unlawful Sanral roadblocks&#8221; on highways.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sanral and e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Sanral e-toll panel no-show no loss: JPSA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/67708\/sanral-e-toll-panel-no-show-no-loss-jpsa\/\"><strong>Sanral e-toll panel no-show no loss: JPSA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The reality facing e-toll non-payers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/67266\/the-reality-facing-e-toll-non-payers\/\"><strong>The reality facing e-toll non-payers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E-tolls toxic to small business growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/67122\/e-tolls-toxic-to-small-business-growth\/\"><strong>E-tolls toxic to small business growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosatu in Gauteng will burn e-tags and bills during a protest outside Sanral&#8217;s office in Pretoria next month, provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1470,1912,427],"class_list":["post-67970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-cosatu","tag-e-tag","tag-e-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67970","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=67970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67972,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67970\/revisions\/67972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}