Even before its regime takes place, the E-Toll system has hit the headlines in different tabloids in an unpopular manner. The system is to take place on the 30 of April 2012, but the public feels that it should be scraped due to its high fees that wont be of much help to the tax payers. COSADTU feel that the tolls are very expensive and it is unfair for the road users to pay to use public roads, so government should fit the bill http://mwcnews.net/news/africa/17351-south-africans-strike.html.
COSADTU went on a national strike on the 7 march 2012 that was against the E-Toll plans, to demonstrate for improved worker rights and against plans to introduce unpopular road tolls http://mwcnews.net/news/africa/17351-south-africans-strike.html. The South African national Road Agency Limited (SANRAL) has announce that anyone who does not want to pay will not be able to renew their vehicle licences without clearing their debt first http://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-16-road-agency-faces-an-uphill-battle/. The toll fees require users to pay per-kilometer-based on the N1, N3, N12 and R21or it can cost R550 per month for light cars. This will be like being forced to pay another amount of money to use the roads that were renovated by the tax payers money.
AA has developed stickers that are in the shape of a number plate with the words "NO TOLL GP" stressing out that the organisation is against the tolling system http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/aa-stickers-to-assist-e-toll-fight-1.1216741. The stickers are sold at R10 each and the money that will be raised will be used towards a planned legal action against SANRAL, said the spokesman of AA Gary Ronald . Careful consideration with regards to the impact that this will have on the end user is still something that AA feels is being blatantly being disregarded said Ronald.
The government has vowed for this to go ahead as planned or people will dance to the music of the law. Jimmy Manye the ANC spokesman said that people should know that these tolls will be a fact of life and they are going nowhere http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/toll-transgressors-to-be-dealt-with-manyi-warns-2012-02-23. This shows that government does not sympathise with the people that brought it into power and it is willing to put them in jail when they start to exercise their rights against something that they do not want in their lives. Is our government really with us or against us???
AA has developed stickers that are in the shape of a number plate with the words "NO TOLL GP" stressing out that the organisation is against the tolling system http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/aa-stickers-to-assist-e-toll-fight-1.1216741. The stickers are sold at R10 each and the money that will be raised will be used towards a planned legal action against SANRAL, said the spokesman of AA Gary Ronald . Careful consideration with regards to the impact that this will have on the end user is still something that AA feels is being blatantly being disregarded said Ronald.
The government has vowed for this to go ahead as planned or people will dance to the music of the law. Jimmy Manye the ANC spokesman said that people should know that these tolls will be a fact of life and they are going nowhere http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/toll-transgressors-to-be-dealt-with-manyi-warns-2012-02-23. This shows that government does not sympathise with the people that brought it into power and it is willing to put them in jail when they start to exercise their rights against something that they do not want in their lives. Is our government really with us or against us???
The E-toll system should be terminated as is not worthy for the road users. This is just another way of the government to make money & giving a small amount in return to the public. So this E-Toll system should stop.
ReplyDeleteLike it or not we gna pay those Etolls, so I think we shud cease complaining remember no pay no license
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