{"id":92011,"date":"2013-11-19T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=92011"},"modified":"2013-11-20T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T07:00:55","slug":"e-tag-numbers-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/92011-e-tag-numbers-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"E-tag numbers revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SA National Roads Agency Ltd (<a title=\"Sanral\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372008-SANRAL\">Sanral<\/a>) is sitting with over 1.4 million unsold e-tags, according to Transport Minister <a title=\"Dipuo Peters\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/407989-Dipuo-Peters\">Dipuo Peters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sanral procured 2,107,000 e-tags over the past three years; [a total of] 1,427,900 have not been allocated,&#8221; she said in a written reply to a parliamentary question.<\/p>\n<p>The figures imply 679,100 e-tags have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks ago, Sanral CEO <a title=\"Nazir Alli\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/408027-Nazir-Alli\">Nazir Alli<\/a> said 600,000 e-toll tags were in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>In September, President <a title=\"Jacob Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/388441-Jacob-Zuma\">Jacob Zuma<\/a> signed into law the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill, giving Sanral the nod to start e-tolling on Gauteng&#8217;s freeways.<\/p>\n<p>In her reply, Peters said Sanral had spent about R25.3 million during the period January to October this year on campaigns to encourage the public to buy e-tags.<\/p>\n<p>This was in addition to about R11.3m spent in November and December last year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More government news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/91995-e-tolls-phase-2-is-coming-da-warns.html\">E-tolls phase 2 is coming, DA warns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/91929-eskom-warns-of-tight-power-supply-during-maintenance.html\">Eskom warns of \u201ctight\u201d power supply during maintenance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/91809-broadband-inter-governmental-forum-in-south-africa.html\">Broadband inter-governmental forum in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanral is sitting with over 1.4 million unsold e-tags, according to Transport Minister Dipuo Peters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78877,"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":[18668],"tags":[36,6677,6525],"class_list":["post-92011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-e-tag","tag-e-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92011"}],"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=92011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92041,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92011\/revisions\/92041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}