Recommendations of the e-tolls review panel will be implemented, ANC Gauteng provincial chairman Paul Mashatile said on Friday.<\/p>\n
“We cannot close our eyes in Gauteng when our people have problems,” he told the party’s provincial conference in Pretoria.<\/p>\n
“If anybody is going to come to me and say ‘don’t discuss e-tolls’, I won’t agree. We must be the first as ANC to say to our people we have heard you.”<\/p>\n
He said government agencies, particularly the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral), did not run the country.<\/p>\n
“It’s not that I don’t like Sanral, but they must know their place,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mashatile told delegates that Sanral officials had been “making noises” about the Gauteng e-tolls.<\/p>\n
Gauteng premier David Makhura established a review panel to examine the economic and social impact of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project and the electronic tolling system set up to fund it.<\/p>\n
The panel is expected to present its findings to Makhura at the end of November.<\/p>\n
Users paying e-toll bills regularly: Sanral<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n E-toll services rated as \u201cvery poor\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n