{"id":41367,"date":"2012-01-15T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=41367"},"modified":"2012-01-16T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:10:35","slug":"sanco-welcomes-e-toll-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/41367-sanco-welcomes-e-toll-postponement.html","title":{"rendered":"Sanco welcomes e-toll postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The postponement of the introduction of electronic tolling on Gauteng road is a victory for public participation, the SA National Civic Organisation (Sanco) said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We view this development as a victory to public participation. A victory to democracy and it is a positive signal towards a democratic developmental state.&#8221; said spokesman Dumisane Mthalane.<\/p>\n<p>He said Sanco would continue to mobilise and advocate for public consultation and involvement on the issue and all other developmental programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372008-SANRAL\">SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral)<\/a> announced on Friday that e-tolling had been placed on hold, following its meeting on Thursday with Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial system was due to have been implemented in February but there was widespread criticism that it would place an unfair burden on Gauteng road users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome the commitment by Sanral and the minister to address the current stakeholders concerns and issues raised in the petitions submitted to the minister,&#8221; Mthalane said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The postponement of the introduction of electronic tolling on Gauteng road is a victory for public participation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":37791,"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":[36,8147,6525,2072],"class_list":["post-41367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-dumisane-mthalane","tag-e-toll","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367"}],"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=41367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41369,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions\/41369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}