Tito Mboweni refuses to scrap e-tolls: 'You pay for bread, and you'll pay for roads'

[furpile]

Lol at the etoll defenders.

Had a fuel levy been implemented back in 2010 it would have been paid off by now.

Will the government turn off the etolls the day it is paid back?

Of course not. The N3 tolls to Durban have paid back the cost multiple times over. The profit they make on that concession is mind numbing.

Toll roads in SA are well established cash cows, feeding off corruption. Etolls was a way to establish a very lucrative cash cow on the busiest highway in SA.

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Yip. The N2 north of Durban has 2 sections where they started to repair the road. This is in between 2 toll gates. They ripped up one lane of the highway, and the contractors bailed with the money (shocking I know). It has been standing like that for something like 5 years now. So even though you still have to pay 2 toll gates that are there for the maintenance of the highway, they can't be bothered to actually fix the road. So why do we still pay tolls on that road?

 

[furpile]

But Gauteng people want a national levy and expect people from other parts of the country to pay for their roads

They were very close to implementing etolls on the Cape highway as well, and it was only avoided because the DA took them to court. The big advantage of the fuel levy is that once the Gauteng highway is paid off, that money can be used to fund the Cape highways, and then Durban and so on. With etolls you will pay forever and ever to keep some connected people rich.

 

[Polymathic]

Tourist, the people who keeps your economy going

Well according to this tourism only contributed R10 Billion to the KZN economy, which seems surprising low

 

[AstroTurf]

And how exactly are you going to make people pay? Because the people do be sayin' NO WE WON'T and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.

Government needs to be reminded that they rule by the will of the people. If that will is ever removed, you no rule.

aarto

 

[AstroTurf]

Wha ha ha ha ha... seems they won't stop until all your money is invested in them. This is an illegitimate government.

De facto one party state.

 

[DarkDragon]

Bread is a need not a want. E-tolls are a want not a need and we don't need it.

 

[Zoomzoom]

aarto

Can't make the people use a toll road. And if there are no alternative routes, then that is illegal AFAIK or at least it used to be.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

piggies want to tax the hell out of us to drive on the EXACT same road they has always been.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

piggies want to tax the hell out of us to drive on the EXACT same road they has always been.

Yep, Cyril, Tito, and co need urgent money to fund their corrupt lifestyles.

If civil organizations are sure that eTolls are illegitimate, then now is the time to get them into the Concourt to get it declared as such.

If the Concourt feels it is not illegitimate and that the elite need to fund their corrupt lifestyles, then so be it. Implement it, change the laws, prosecute citizens who do not pay, tank the economy even more and chase away even more tax payers.

 

[LPCPT]

In SA we build a R10 billion road and we then want to collect R50 billion for that same road.
Tito, do you know understand why the people are befok

 

[AstroTurf]

Can't make the people use a toll road. And if there are no alternative routes, then that is illegal AFAIK or at least it used to be.

Simply will not allow you to renew car or drivers licence...

 

[Zoomzoom]

Simply will not allow you to renew car or drivers licence...

Uh by using an alternative route?

 

[surface]

Uh by using an alternative route?

I very much doubt that non-payers of e-tolls use alternative routes. They just don't pay as there have been no consequences to that. Yet. And it is likely to remain so.

 

[hedgehog]

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Seems like it’s coming to national routes near everyone.

How is it user pays if taxis are exempt ?

 

[Lupus]

Simply will not allow you to renew car or drivers licence...

So they just promote more lawlessness? It's not like there's active policing anyway.

 

[DreamKing]

But Gauteng people want a national levy and expect people from other parts of the country to pay for their roads

you can charge the levy only in gauteng when people fill up at any petrol station in gauteng

problem solved.

 

[surface]

So they just promote more lawlessness? It's not like there's active policing anyway.

Where do you stay? I go through at least one road block every week. Midrand/fourways etc..

 

[Sinbad]

you can charge the levy only in gauteng when people fill up at any petrol station in gauteng

problem solved.

fokof we already pay more for fuel in gauteng that you coastal freeloaders.

 

[DreamKing]

fokof we already pay more for fuel in gauteng that you coastal freeloaders.

the reason is transportation cost, limpopo pays more than gauteng

 

[ToxicBunny]

Where do you stay? I go through at least one road block every week. Midrand/fourways etc..

I've been driving for over 20 years now (fek me, that just gives too much shyte away). I have been through maybe 10 road blocks in that entire time (that includes little 2 man road block at the offramp checking licenses and what not). This is in the Durban area... they have massive road blocks at specific places regularly, but they're not places I go.