We'll see at next year's elections just how happy everyone is to pay an extra R450pm for no additional benefit.
The early e-tag adopters had nice highways for a few days so they were gloating about how they would pay R450pm with a smile for open freeways. But soon those freeways won't be open, they'll be just as busy as always and they'll still be paying R450pm and then +30% annually.
http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/50487/sa-consumers-drowning-in-debt/
Oh you ain't seen nothing yet... tun tun... ooohhh baby you just ain't seen nothing yet!!!
Nope I bet you next years elections will be .. boring. ANC will get their required 65% (Or close to that) - DA will gain a little.. the others will pale in comparison.
Its the same bull**** story over and over again for the last two decades now. People get up in arms over something the government did / did not do. The moan, bitch and have a cry in the corner. Come election time - ANC gets the vote.. again and again. Why?
Because people are too ****ing stupid to realise just how badly the government are screwing them. Stuff free t-shirts, ANC - rather give your people a free tub of lube...
I hope I am wrong and I hope SANRAL and the ANC soon see the repercussions of their actions or lack thereof.
Yes the roads are quite now and the idiots are, as you say "happy to pay 450p/m" for a open road. However come the second week of january and it will be gridlock again. What will typical South Africans do? - you guessed it... bitch and moan and throw their toys out the cot. That it. Nothing else. Come elections... they will go the same as the 2009 elections. And the pervious elections before that and so on.
You see, eTolls don't effect those outside the province. (Yet) they don't effect those without cars. Those who take taxis (They're exempt), those who stay in rural areas and their main road is some dirt with no tolling. These people - the "majority" of the ANC votes are unaffected about the tolls and couldn't care less about it. So, that is points to the ANC, right there.
Then we come to the whole Nkandla saga. The president spends 200 odd
million rand of our money on his own house while there are people suffering from poverty, lack of education, decent hospitals, etc, etc - he does this...
What do South Africans do.. bitch and moan.. no repercussions for Mr. Shower head. Come elections.. ANC get the vote.
Sorry for the small (off topic rant) but this place makes me sick and the people who buy tags make me sick. You're accepting what the government are doing and condone it. Hell, they should tell you next to just jump off a cliff... guess what? you will bitch and moan and then just do what they say anyway.
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