Parliament to be briefed on e-toll failure and success

They will give some BS report. If you expecting anything to come out of this. Don't hold your breath.

Nothing happened with the Gupta landing, nothing happened with Nkandla, nothing will happen with the e-tolls.
 
e-toll - a thing of the past

The use of past tense in this statement is interesting:
“We look forward to the opportunity to explain what went wrong with e-tolling, but also what went right,” spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement on Monday.
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I wonder who will be doing the presentation to parliament? Unlike lying to the public, which is one of our national sports, lying to parliament is a punishable offence, as far as I know. This could make things interesting for the creative Mr Mona, who is paid to toe the party line, rather than for his candour.
 
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About the 45000 that join the etoll rapture per week ...

This reminds me: SANRAL said they are doing 45000 etoll registrations per week. That's interesting ... 45000 per week is 6428 per day if they are open 7 days a week, and 803 per hour in an 8 hour working day. I count around 51 etoll registration venues on their map, so this means that each venue is doing 15 registrations per hour, or one roughly every 4 minutes. I slightly wonder about this, considering that it can take the best part of an hour to pay a single invoice.
 
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Mona said some people received wrong invoices because of inaccurate or outdated information on the electronic national administration traffic information system (eNatis).
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What a load of crap! They can't blame other systems for their mistakes! Your problem is your problem!
I think they lied! They asked the wrong people! They should ask the thousands of people who got SMSe, which is not registered on eNatis (which is known to be a very unreliable system too)
 
Dear sirs and madams,

Welcome to Sanral's annual E Toll Bulletin Synopsis (E Toll BS)

We have a 92,3% compliance rate (of middle fingers in the air while driving through a gantry)
We've collected 18 billion in revenue (and Mugabe promises us that his dollar will remain strong)
Our age analysis is looking incredibly healthy (just yesterday Margaret from accounts did a headcount and we average around 38 years old)
Traffic is steady, predictable, and manageable (on the internet router connected to our complaints system)
Quality of construction work continues to be a concern for us (at Nkandla)
Alternative routes are being used and customers appear happy (alternative routes being the nickname we gave Vusi Mona's wife)
The billing problems we initially experienced have been corrected according to latest stats (from Peter Cheales who promises us that our Hellopeter account has been properly disabled)
Invoices are being issued to all customers who use the roads (as and when we see fit, and when SAPO feel like going to work. LOL)
Cashflows are healthy, steady and forecastable (for the 2.5 million people who refuse to pay their tolls)
And lastly, Nazir Ali says that we're winning over the public (by handing out timeshare pamphlets at all non-toll gantries, so hopefully we see a revenue spike next year).

We thank you for your time, ladies and gentleman. Please take a complimentary e-tag on your way out (because nobody else flippen wants them)...
 
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Any chance of getting the video presentation to be made to the committee?
 
lol what I mean is that other than Vusi's little press release what is actually known about the appearance - haven't bothered to check the Parliament site
I get the idea SANRAL have been summoned and the opposition may want to beat them with a stick

Looking at it:
Portfolio Committee on Transport, (National Assembly), [Adoption of minutes of proceedings;
Briefing by the Minister of Transport on Road Safety and the South African National Roads
Agency Limited (SANRAL); Briefing by the Swedish Embassy on the Swedish model on Road
Safety], Committee Room 1, Upper Ground Floor, 90 Plein Street, 09:30
http://www.parliament.gov.za/live/commonrepository/Processed/20140217/565287_1.pdf
 
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"Who's a Moaner" is lying through his teeth (as usual). 0.3% of 2,6m users equates to a mere 7800 people and we already know from information collection by OUTA and the DA that the true numbers are in the order of tens of thousands... I certainly hope parliament strap him into a lie detector if he's presenting.
 
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