{"id":76198,"date":"2013-04-22T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=76198"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T07:08:25","slug":"dont-be-fooled-into-buying-e-tags-samwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/76198-dont-be-fooled-into-buying-e-tags-samwu.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be “fooled” into buying e-tags: SAMWU"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africans should not be “fooled” into buying e-tags, the SA Municipal Workers’ Union<\/a> said on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Fellow South Africans must join hands with unions, the general public, and civil society calling for an end to e-tolling. We must not back down as this fight is one worth fighting until the end,” Samwu spokesman Tahir Sema<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“This union strongly believes that the pressure of the masses is crucial to forcing government to back down on this blatant extortion.”<\/p>\n

He said Samwu aimed to make e-tolls “uncollectable”.<\/p>\n

“If the e-tolling is implemented it will undoubtedly affect everyone –those who have cars and even those who don’t,” Sema said.<\/p>\n

“Roads are a national asset of the country, not a source of private profit, let alone handsome profit for tenderpreneurs.”<\/p>\n

Earlier in the month, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral<\/a>) said it would begin e-tolling on Gauteng roads within the next two months.<\/p>\n

“What we are now waiting for is the completion of the parliamentary process, half of which is already done,” Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n

In April last year, the High Court in Pretoria granted the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa<\/a>) an interdict approving a full judicial review before electronic tolling could be put into effect.<\/p>\n

The interdict prevented Sanral from levying or collecting e-tolls pending the outcome of a review. Sanral and the National Treasury<\/a> appealed the court order. In September, the Constitutional Court set aside the interim order.<\/p>\n

In December, the High Court in Pretoria dismissed Outa’s application to scrap e-tolling.<\/p>\n

The court granted Outa leave on January 25 to take the matter to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein. The SCA hearing will take place in September.<\/p>\n

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Western Cape e-toll will create 5,000 jobs: SANRAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

DA vows to fight Cape Town toll roads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

E-toll to cost R200 on average: SANRAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cape Town e-toll is different: SANRAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

E-tolls start in two months<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africans should not be “fooled” into buying e-tags, the SA Municipal Workers’ Union said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":72554,"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":[36,8693,6525,2072],"class_list":["post-76198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-e-toll","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76200,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198\/revisions\/76200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}