Jimmy Manyi: E-tolling! It's democracy being rolled out

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http://mg.co.za/article/2012-04-19-democracy-and-etolling-this-is-what-you-voted-for

The controversial e-tolling system is an example of government "rolling out democracy", Cabinet spokesperson Jimmy Manyi said on Thursday.

"While Cabinet is concerned about the opposition towards the system, the whole process is quite simply a roll out of democracy," Manyi told reporters at a post-Cabinet meeting press briefing in Pretoria.

Manyi's comments come just 12 days before the e-tolling system is due to begin in earnest, in the face of massive civil opposition.

On Monday, Cosatu threatened to stage the "mother of all protests" against the e-tolls before its planned implementation on April 30, and is "looking for a legal angle" to challenge the system.

The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa), a union of civil society organisations and private companies, has already done that: its bid to interdict e-tolls at the North Gauteng High Court is due to be heard on April 24.

The R20-billion South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) project was implemented in order to address the quality of the roads in Gauteng, and reduce congestion. About 185km of Gauteng's road network has been or is in the process of being upgraded, and the e-tolling component of the programme will see motorists billed electronically when using the province's N1 highway.

Commuters have been encouraged to register an e-tag which will monitor each time they pass a specific gantry on the highway and charge the road user accordingly. Cars without e-tags will have their licence plates monitored and billed for their journeys.

Manyi said on Thursday that while government had undertaken a number of strategies to mitigate the financial impact of e-tolling on consumers, if the government did not implement e-tolling, national health and education programmes would suffer as a result.

"If people voice their opposition through the correct channels and the rule of law is supreme then there shouldn't be a problem. If people want to go to court, that's what they are there for," Manyi added.

Sanral's Nazir Alli, who was also present at the briefing, echoed Manyi's sentiment saying government "has gone a long way" to help make the system affordable.

"Nobody asks what would have happened had we not undertaken those improvements on Gauteng's highways. Sanral never hid the fact e-tolling was going to cost money," Alli said.

He added that besides the "massive financial burden" that would be placed on the fiscus if e-tolling was scrapped, as many as 1 200 jobs would be lost and the country's international credit rating would be threatened.

According to Sanral there are as many as 500 000 e-tags currently registered, with the number increasing since the announcement of penalty fees for commuters who don't fit tags or who pay fees late.

Sanral previously set a rate of R0.58 a km rate for commuters without an e-tag, while registered e-tag users are charged R0.30 per km.

However this past weekend Sanral said users who don't fit e-tags will be charged R1.75 per kilometre.
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Heaven help us with this idiot.
 
Lol they'll try and drag out this democracy card for as long as they can, even though by saying that we have no choice, it isn't.
 
Manyi woiuldn't know democracy if he found it in his soup. Afterall he represents a party that has a dictator as its chief ninja turtle.
 
Jimmy Manyi sounds like an African mafia hitman. AKA Jimmy give me your manyi, Jimmy the hand in the manyi jar. or jimmy the poephol who thinks people are falling for his arrogant rhetoric while he tries to take your Manyi.
 
Jimmy Manyi probably believes that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a shining example of democracy.

Yes, Jimmy, North Korea has rolled out all democracy...

Manyi you tool.
 
kilobits said:
Jimmy Manyi probably believes that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a shining example of democracy.

Yes, Jimmy, North Korea has rolled out all democracy...

Manyi you tool.
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But closer to home we have the Democratic Republic of the Congo which isn't either. I don't think that there is a single country with the word 'democratic' in its name that is democratic.
 
Now there are 500,000 registered e-tags? So 150,000 people went out today and bought e-tags?

The lies don't stop with this lot...
 
And this is why the country is in such a mess, either nobody has an idea what democracy is, or everyone has their own version of democracy.....

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"Nobody asks what would have happened had we not undertaken those improvements on Gauteng's highways. Sanral never hid the fact e-tolling was going to cost money," Alli said.
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Of course we do you fscking moron. And we know that had the upgrades not taken place in one foul swoop, government would have adopted a more pragmatic approach to the upgrades - one in which problem areas are focused on first. For example, there was absolutely no need to upgrade the entire stretch of all freeway roads and some areas are affected far worse by traffic than others. More than just that, the added lane doesn't speed traffic up - effective off and on ramps do so, as well as investment in public transport. Now had the money been spent on effective on and off-ramps only, we'd have saved 3 quarters of the costs and it could have come out of the budget for road maintenance.

And stop insulting us you dickfaced, schit-for-brains, Alli. We do understand the repercussions of poor investment in infrastructure, which is precisely why we are up in arms about this. Because prior to this, road maintenance was used as a slush fund for politicians and cash was never allocated correctly. Amazing how you hollow-heads have forgotten about this.

Now kindly go fsck yourself and your toll roads. Shove your gantries where the sun don't shine, one by one. We're prepared to help...
 
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Jimmy Manyi: E-tolling! It's democracy being rolled out (the back door)

Where's your day pass, out-of-town citizen?!



Democracy's a-hole.
 
DJ... said:
Now there are 500,000 registered e-tags? So 150,000 [-]people[/-] sheep went out today and bought e-tags?

The lies don't stop with this lot...
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Yip, they're lying, underhanded and devious. I trust Malema more than I do Alli!
 
I am pretty sure that there is good money be made selling tags that beep when you go under a fly zapper.

I am pretty sure that an outlet will open in Hillbrow soon.
 
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