Article: Appropriation Bill for e-tolling to be introduced

The government is considering introducing a special Appropriation Bill to help the South African National Road Agency Limited (Sanral) to meet its obligations in the short-term, the Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has announced.

Briefing media on Thursday, Motlanthe said Sanral had borrowed R20 billion to fund the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) and the delay in the collection of toll fees had resulted in the roads agency not being able to meet its contractual obligation.
 
Why don't they start by "appropriating" the 300bar donation to Cuba ... or the 2.4 billion donated for Mswati's new mercs and palace upgrades ... or ... ah f@#$k nevermind :(. I am so f-ing sick of this BS
 
McSack said:
Why don't they start by "appropriating" the 300bar donation to Cuba ... or the 2.4 billion donated for Mswati's new mercs and palace upgrades ... or ... ah f@#$k nevermind :(. I am so f-ing sick of this BS
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Yeah me too leaving JHB by the end of June - cannot wait. The cANCer we have for a government is totally useless:twisted:

But an e-tag I will never purchase
 
What they want is to start printing money and drive the Rand to the dogs .
 
As an alternative to e-tolling, the public could also make use of other public transport such as rail, minibus taxis and buses and could also make use of several alternative roads.

These include: R101 (the Old Johannesburg/Pretoria Road), R55, R59, R511 and N14 were alternative roads, with major upgrades also being undertaken on some of these alternative roads.
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FFS, does he have any idea what he is talking about or is he just another victim of Scamral spin???

If I want to go from Fourways to Edenvale without cutting through all the suburbs I have no choice other than to use the N1 and N3 and R24, all his alternative routes go to Pretoria :mad:
 
This can be contested surely? Why should the tax payer have to bail out someone who the courts have already said has screwed up.
 
"While we continue to consult, we must bear in mind that there is a public debt that needs to be repaid and the longer we take to resolve this impasse the worse the country's financial position becomes," he said
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I thought it was a government debt, not a public one?
 
I will say this to your Kgalema,

If you still don't know what the ordinary citizens issue with the GFIP and specifically the e-tolling is, then you are thick as pig excrement, and you should just resign because you are not fit to be in the position you are in.
 
Ol' Mean Bastid said:
I thought it was a government debt, not a public one?
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Same thing. All the debt the government makes is public debt.

It pisses me off that the government acts as if they're doing us a favour by building these roads, and doing us an even bigger favour by paying that R5bn or whatever it was out of the fiscus to decrease the tariffs. It's OUR money, douchebags!

Also, I still don't get why they can't just finance this project the way they finance any other big infrastructure project. Government borrows money on the international markets or by issuing bonds and pays it off over 20/30/40 years. Our overall public debt isn't in bad shape, and R20bn is less than 2% of what the government plans on spending in the next year.

Not to mention they can cut spending elsewhere, like the [-]ANCYL Trust Fund[/-]NYDA, or all the traditional leaders we have to bankroll, or all the money we love to give to brokeass dictatorships like Cuba and Swaziland. :mad:
 
ToxicBunny said:
I will say this to your Kgalema,

If you still don't know what the ordinary citizens issue with the GFIP and specifically the e-tolling is, then you are thick as pig excrement, and you should just resign because you are not fit to be in the position you are in.
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If you are second to Zumatello then to aspire to being as thick as pig excrement.
 
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