{"id":112110,"date":"2014-10-14T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=112110"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:36:30","slug":"e-tolls-those-for-and-against-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/112110-e-tolls-those-for-and-against-the-system.html","title":{"rendered":"E-tolls &#8211; those for and against the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists, organisations and political parties have given their submissions to the panel reviewing the electronic tolling (e-tolls) on Gauteng&#8217;s highways.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the timeline of events leading up to the day it concluded those proceedings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 10, 2014 &#8212; Gauteng premier David Makhura announces the names of the 10 people to sit on the panel which is to assess the socio-economic impact of e-tolls.<\/li>\n<li>July 11, 2014 &#8212; Chairman of the provincial transport portfolio committee Jacob Khawe claims the panel is reputable.<\/li>\n<li>July 17, 2014 &#8212; E-toll panel holds it first meeting. Makhura adds two more members to the panel which is meant to consist of 15 people.<\/li>\n<li>27 August, 2014 &#8212; Start of public consultations on the socio-economic impact of the e-tolls.<\/li>\n<li>27 August, 2014 &#8212; National Council of Trade Unions project manager Thulani Khumalo tells the panel that &#8220;the system of user pay does not present any rational choice to road users&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>August 27, 2014 &#8212; Congress of SA Trade Unions provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile tells the panel that &#8220;absolutely everything&#8217;s wrong&#8221; with e-tolls.<\/li>\n<li>August 27, 2014 &#8212; Federation of Unions of SA spokesman Junior Gys proposes that those who have paid money towards their e-toll bill should be refunded.<\/li>\n<li>August 28, 2014 &#8212; Contractual affairs manager of Consulting Engineers SA Wallace Mayne tells the panel that a proposed fuel levy was not an effective means of funding improvements to Gauteng&#8217;s freeways.<\/li>\n<li>August 28, 2014 &#8212; Black Business Council CEO Babalwa Ngonyama tells the panel that the consultations prior to the introduction of e-tolling were flawed.<\/li>\n<li>August 28, 2014 &#8212; SA Transport and Allied Workers Union provincial secretary Chris Nkosi submits that the e-tolling is harming the poor and working class, who are already struggling with the high cost of living.<\/li>\n<li>August 29, 2014 &#8212; Business Unity SA Kgatlaki Ngoasheng informs the panel that Busa is in favour of funding the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) through the fuel levy, which involved the ring-fencing of taxes, as<\/li>\n<li>opposed to e-tolling.<\/li>\n<li>September 1, 2014 &#8212; The Justice Project SA chairman Howard Dembovsky warns that e-tolls in Gauteng will cripple South Africa&#8217;s economy.<\/li>\n<li>September 1, 2014 &#8212; The Road Safety Campaign&#8217;s Ali Gule describes the discount offered to motorists by Sanral as &#8221; lucky packets&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>September 2, 2014 &#8212; Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance chairman Wayne Duvenage tells the panel that majority of users will not pay for e-tolls and this has rendered the system a failure.<\/li>\n<li>September 9, 2014 &#8212; The Star reports that Peters said there would be no review of the user-pays principle. She claimed that Makhura had told her the panel would do an economic analysis of the whole Gauteng Freeway Improvement<\/li>\n<li>Project, and not the tolls.<\/li>\n<li>September 15, 2014 &#8212; Panel hears public hearings in Soweto.<\/li>\n<li>September 15, 2014 &#8212; &#8220;There&#8217;s electricity for the roads but not the people living in shacks next to the highway,&#8221; government employee Mbuyisa Manana tells the panel during the Soweto sittings.<\/li>\n<li>October 9, 2014 &#8212; Neil Campbell of the Democratic Alliance tells the panel that implementation of e-tolls in Gauteng has led to burdens on other spheres of government.<\/li>\n<li>October 9, 2014 &#8212; Economic Freedom Fighters Gauteng caucus leader Mgcini Tshwaku questions the need of the panel, labelling it &#8220;a waste of time and misuse of taxpayers&#8217; money&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>October 9, 2014 &#8212; Inkatha Freedom Party Gauteng leader Bongikosi Dlamini tells the panel that South Africa is capable of coming up with methods other than e-tolls to pay for the GFIP.<\/li>\n<li>October 9, 2014 Freedom Front Plus MP Anton Alberts submits that the technology used by Sanral to collect road users&#8217; details is illegal and unapproved.<\/li>\n<li>October 14, 2014 &#8212; Chairman for the African National Congress in Gauteng, Paul Mashatile informs the panel that urban tolling will &#8220;kill the economy&#8221; and the current system needs to be reviewed. He encourages users to continue\u00a0paying for tolls during the review process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The panel may decide to have round table meetings with the experts before analysing all the submissions and evidence it has collected.<\/p>\n<p>It will present its findings to Makhura at the end of November.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More e-toll news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/112100-pay-your-e-tolls-its-the-law-anc.html\">Pay your e-tolls, it\u2019s the law: ANC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/112054-anc-avoids-e-toll-collusion-questions.html\">ANC avoids e-toll collusion questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/112046-anc-wont-remove-e-toll-gantries.html\">ANC won\u2019t remove e-toll gantries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists, organisations and political parties have given their submissions to the panel reviewing the electronic tolling (e-tolls) on Gauteng&#8217;s highways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,569,26554,9413,8703],"class_list":["post-112110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-anc","tag-e-toll-review-panel","tag-e-tolls","tag-sa-national-roads-agency-limited-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}