E-tolls may be dead, but Gauteng drivers will still pay for freeway - Godongwana

[rvZA]

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said he tabled his 2022 Medium-term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) at a time when the government was stuck between "a rock and a hard place", giving relief in only the most urgent circumstances with strict conditions.

Godongwana's MTBPS introduced R23.7 billion for Sanral and a commitment for the national and Gauteng provincial governments to take on the road agency's debt. The management of the electronic tolling system of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) will also shift to the Gauteng government.

The Post Office, SABC, and SAA received no new allocations, but Denel, and Transnet got debt and capacity-related assistance from the MTBPS.

The MTBPS also penciled in an average growth rate of 3.1% to the public service wage bill in the medium term, angering unions in ongoing wage talks.

Godongwana told Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance, the Standing Committee on Appropriations, the Select Committee on Finance, and the Select Committee on Appropriations on Thursday that his MTBPS hoped to make room for substantial infrastructure investments, the social wage, and improvements to basic services, but difficult trade-offs were on the table.

E-tolls may be dead, but Gauteng drivers will still pay for freeway - Godongwana | Business

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said his medium-term budget hoped to make room for substantial infrastructure investments, the social wage, and improvements to basic services.

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[rvZA]

"The issue of whether motorists are going to pay in Gauteng … yes of course they have (to). Now the question is whether they are going to pay it via the equitable share in Gauteng or they are going to pay through a toll or (are) they going to pay via any other tax that the provincial government is empowered to tax. Gauteng people will have to pay for the maintenance of the roads. The question is going to be what those methods should be," said Godongwana.

But, of course Gauteng residents are going to pay for the system they pleaded for the 'Democratic' government to implement....

 

[s0lar]

I haven’t been following this as I moved from jhb years ago. What is happening with my few hundred outstanding rand I owed on my etolls? Still liable?

 

[surface]

I haven’t been following this as I moved from jhb years ago. What is happening with my few hundred outstanding rand I owed on my etolls? Still liable?

I don't think anyone will come after you for that. But, eventually, we will pay - one way or other.

 

[Harold_Crick]

Gauteng people will have to pay for the maintenance of the roads. The question is going to be what those methods should be," said Godongwana.

We already pay for it through the fuel levy...Perhaps consider not stealing and misappropriating funds and instead using it for its intended purpose?

 

[surface]

Its ok bra, we are quite rich at highveld.

 

[surface]

To those who are TLDR like Shaun

"The issue of whether motorists are going to pay in Gauteng … yes of course they have (to). Now the question is whether they are going to pay it via the equitable share in Gauteng or they are going to pay through a toll or (are) they going to pay via any other tax that the provincial government is empowered to tax. Gauteng people will have to pay for the maintenance of the roads. The question is going to be what those methods should be," said Godongwana.

 

[Superjakes]

I haven’t been following this as I moved from jhb years ago. What is happening with my few hundred outstanding rand I owed on my etolls? Still liable?

It also depends on how old the debt is - as per my understanding, debt prescribes (becomes invalid) after x amount of years. Meaning that you can technically only owe them for a certain number of years and anything older than that needs to be written off in their books. I wouldn't worry about it. It seems like 3 years, in this case.
Linky

 

[GreatWmR]

This freeway doesn't sound very "free"

 

[DreamKing]

This freeway doesn't sound very "free"

highway is better ...

because you are going to pay "higher" price than normal.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

of course we will pay, they just spread the taxes out more,
so VAT, Fuel levy, PAYE,sugar tax and then tax on whatever else those idiots in the ANC can think of next.

breathing and Fornicating tax? walking tax? taxi Tax?
who knows, maybe a Tax you have to pay to enter certain streets, like Sandton CBD, during a certain time.

 

[Neuk_]

Let's get this right shall we...

Gauteng residents will have to pay for a system of roads that they have already paid for via various taxes because a tolling system they never wanted and was shown to be never needed was implemented by those that collected the various taxes in the first place to maintain and/or upgrade the roads that Gauteng residents use.

 

[RedViking]

Household levy. Not gonna have a choice but to pay it.

Taxies and informal areas excluded of course.

 

[ES1]

What about all the foreign trucks which drives through Gauteng on their way to the coast to deliver goods to ships - copper etc. How are they contributing to our roads?

 

[Lupus]

Let's get this right shall we...

Gauteng residents will have to pay for a system of roads that they have already paid for via various taxes because a tolling system they never wanted and was shown to be never needed was implemented by those that collected the various taxes in the first place to maintain and/or upgrade the roads that Gauteng residents use.

Yup, it's the ANC way...

 

[rvZA]

Let's get this right shall we...

Gauteng residents will have to pay for a system of roads that they have already paid for via various taxes because a tolling system they never wanted and was shown to be never needed was implemented by those that collected the various taxes in the first place to maintain and/or upgrade the roads that Gauteng residents use.

Yes, you cannot hold the ANC responsible for their corrupt nature. Someone else have to foot the bill and pay for it. Jan made them corrupt.

 

[dj_jyno]

Yup, it's the ANC way...

Die wet van Transvaal...

 

[bwana]

So Gauteng'ers are finally going to be paying for the road they use?

I'm ok with that.

 

[rvZA]

So Gauteng'ers are finally going to be paying for the road they use?

I'm ok with that.

Of course you are

 

[Lupus]

Of course you are

When are the rest of the provinces going to be paying for the roads they use?