Calls for scrapping of e-tolls grow after confusion on their fate

There are mounting calls for Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula to announce a final decision on e-tolls soon and clear up the matter once and for all.

This comes after Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo declared on SAfm on Thursday that e-tolls were in the past, and the provincial government was moving on.

The transport ministry and Cabinet were quick to respond, saying that no decision had been taken.

With billions of rand spent on e-tolls and insufficient payment from the public, it’s being argued that government must face the hard truth.

Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) chief executive officer Wayne Duvenage said: “It is a scheme of the past, the government has no chance in trying to resurrect it or get the public to pay – but we want to hear from the minister.”

He said the announcement by MEC Mamabolo was very ‘interesting’.

“What we do take from the earlier message is that he is the person in the know, he is connected to people in high places, and he wouldn’t have made the statement that the scheme has been scrapped if he didn’t know something.”

Despite an aggressive campaign to get people to pay, the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has battled to recoup a fraction of its losses and the government is being told to call it a day.

-EWN

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