{"id":9006,"date":"2012-04-03T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T10:12:16","slug":"sanral-wants-e-tags-compulsory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/9006\/sanral-wants-e-tags-compulsory\/","title":{"rendered":"SANRAL wants e-tags compulsory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"SANRAL - South African National Roads Association Limited\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1722-SANRAL-South-African-National-Roads-Association-Limited\">SA National Roads Association Limited (Sanral)<\/a> is attempting to legally force motorists to buy an e-tag or have their driver&#8217;s licences taken away, according to a report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Draft changes to the National Roads Act Regulations were submitted to a few parties late last week with a request that comment be received within 20 days of publication, The Star newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>If instituted, it would give &#8220;peace officers&#8221; the power to stop cars and demand to see a driver&#8217;s licence and to produce any other tag or document they were required to have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By implementing e-tolling and the proposed regulations through the Criminal Procedures Act, the government is promoting a very aggressive approach and tense relationship with its citizens,&#8221; said <a title=\"Wayne Duvenage\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1723-Wayne-Duvenage\">Wayne Duvenage<\/a> from the <a title=\"SAVRALA - South African Vehicle Rental Leasing Association\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1724-SAVRALA-South-African-Vehicle-Rental-Leasing-Association\">SA Vehicle Rental Leasing Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SA National Roads Association Limited (Sanral) is attempting to legally force motorists to buy an e-tag or have their driver&#8217;s licences taken away, according to a report on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1912,429,2207,1989],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-e-tag","tag-sanral","tag-tolling","tag-wayne-duvenage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","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=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions\/9011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}