The great mystery behind South Africa's toll fees

[Jamie McKane]

The great mystery behind South Africa's toll fees

The way in which South Africa's national toll road fees are calculated is a mystery, OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenhage has told MyBroadband.

South Africa has an extensive network of tolled roads, with major highways including the N1, N2, N3, N4, and N17 all covered by toll gantries.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Duh! It is all about the backhand.

The cadre handshake...

 

[Thor]

No Logic behind anything the government does.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

The great mystery behind South Africa's toll fees

The way in which South Africa's national toll road fees are calculated is a mystery, OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenhage has told MyBroadband.

South Africa has an extensive network of tolled roads, with major highways including the N1, N2, N3, N4, and N17 all covered by toll gantries.

It's a secret, but hanno knows

 

[Herr der Verboten]

The title "The secret way..." implies that you are going to tell "the secret way" in the article. While the article body isn't devoid of information, this is a poorly chosen title.

This thread title is more appropriate: "the-great-mystery-behind-south-africas-toll-fees", although it's still too clickbaity - "the-mystery-of-south-africas-toll-fees" is even better - it is concise, and implies that the article doesn't uncover some great mystery; instead, it explores some of the possibilities, makes educated guesses and leave conclusions to the audience.

 

[wroemwroem]

Just for transparency, I deleted my own post because I felt my criticism wasn't completely valid. There was investigative journalism and research that uncovered previously hard to know information, and while I'm not satisfied with the article title, I understand that you have to nudge titles a little bit to get clicks. Competing online is hard, especially with news aggregators (e.g. Google News) only showing titles and occasionally first paragraph snippets.

It's the same on News24, YouTube and most other online spaces fighting for your attention.

Linus Tech Tips answered this on why their thumbnails are the way they are, as did Veritasium.

PS: Veritasium's video is quite good if you have 15 mins to spare.

So while my original comment is justified, in a sense, I felt that it's unfair criticism given the arena in which journalists have to compete, and if everyone does it, and you do not, you lose out.

 

[blowdart18]

Its all about the money, first link I clicked got me through to the shareholders of the N3 toll road



Go to the first company that I have not heard of before and see GAIA Infrastructure capital.
On their front page first thing you see:



You go digging a little bit more and you find under their financial statements a separate SPV which I would assume has a controlling interest in N3TC - however I need to work, don't have time to keep digging

Short of it, the toll fees have to pay pockets along the way somehow