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

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ToxicBunny said:
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.
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Yeah. Roadblocks everywhere is probably a Jozi thing.. you are guys are deemed poor so not really worth it. ;)
ah - didn't read that you don't go to where roadblocks are. They are quite clever here to set them at strategic locations and at random times.
 
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surface said:
Yeah. Roadblocks everywhere is probably a Jozi thing.. you are guys are deemed poor so not really worth it. ;)
ah - didn't read that you don't go to where roadblocks are. They are quite clever here to set them at strategic locations and at random times.
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Durban cops are pretty damned predictable really :)...

There will be fsck tons of road blocks on Saturday, but I can guarantee you the areas. Florida Rd area, Hillcrest, M4, Durban North and Umhlanga Rocks....
 
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Surprised nobody has thought of the obvious solution to the e-toll payment question.
 
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Haha, they conned the poor, dumb, ANC Votaz by talking about scrapping etolls just before the election. Well done. Only you believed them. Now shut up and pay (also pay for Electricity while you are at it).
 
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Gaz{M} said:
Haha, they conned the poor, dumb, ANC Votaz by talking about scrapping etolls just before the election. Well done. Only you believed them. Now shut up and pay (also pay for Electricity while you are at it).
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Dumb voters would have voted for them even if they threatened imprisonment before the elections. As long as the poor dumb votas uses public transport, they do not pay a single cent and this would not affect them. They are not worried about the middle class votas who vote for them and have to pay, they are far and few between, as can be seen by an almost 80-90% unemployment figure in SA.
 
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Gaz{M} said:
Haha, they conned the poor, dumb, ANC Votaz by talking about scrapping etolls just before the election. Well done. Only you believed them. Now shut up and pay (also pay for Electricity while you are at it).
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Votaz?

What are you insinuating? That ANC voters don't pay for electricity? Tito Mboweni's stance on e-tolls was clear even before elections as far as I recall.
 
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ToxicBunny said:
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.
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I live in Roodepoort, been driving for 20 years now as well and my one job was a consultant so I racked up 70k a year in mileage around Gauteng, Mpumalanga and surrounding provinces, I've been stopped 4 times. Once because I was speeding, once because I was using my phone, once because my car matched a vehicle they were looking for and once at a massive roadblock just outside Harrismith. The only time I provided my license was the speeding.
 
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Foxhound5366 said:
Sooooo just to kick the hornets nest a bit, I'll leave this here ... currently I have a princely prepaid balance in my Sanral account, which pays for my eTolls and tollbooth gantries in all kinds of places. It's even started paying for some connected parking garages (I was puzzled by a Netcare hospital's parking boom opening recently as I pulled up for a ticket, until I saw the notification in the Sanral app):


I think so many eToll protesters would be pretty impressed by how slick the whole eToll app and payment process has become in recent years. But it's ok, sit in the long tollgate queues while I go past in the eToll rapid payment lanes, suits me fine :D
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Those of you who are in favour of etoll, have you perused the document from OUTA yet?

I urge you to read up on the history of etoll, and the subsequent corruption that went with it. PDF is safe to open.

It is TL;DR but is worth the read.
 

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surface said:
Yeah. Roadblocks everywhere is probably a Jozi thing.. you are guys are deemed poor so not really worth it. ;)
ah - didn't read that you don't go to where roadblocks are. They are quite clever here to set them at strategic locations and at random times.
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It's an annual thing.. always oct-nov (pre-christmass checks), feb-april (typical licence renewal expiry). in between is a random..
 
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