President Jacob Zuma has signed into law the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill, giving the go-ahead to e-tolling in Gauteng.
There’s still no definite start date, but Transport Minister Dipuo Peters says e-tolling will be up and running before the year is out.
Money collected from e-tolling in Gauteng will not go overseas, says the South African National Roads Agency.
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance says it has raised R2.35-million towards its court challenge to e-tolling on Gauteng’s highways.
Sanral has welcomed the DA’s announcement that it would donate R1-million to Outa to help continue the legal battle against e-tolls.
The DA will contribute the R1-million the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) needs to continue its court battle against e-tolls.
Cosatu is still contemplating whether to go ahead with a drive-slow protest against the e-tolling of Gauteng freeways.
The transport department is willing to engage with various sections of South Africa about the contentious e-tolling system, it has said.
Legislation paving the way for putting e-tolling on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project into practice has been approved in the National Assembly.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it is planning renewed protests against e-tolling.
Experts have downplayed Outa’s prospects of success in its continued legal challenge of the implementation of Gauteng’s e-tolling system.
It appears the electronic tolling of Gauteng’s freeways will indeed go ahead in 2013 after the North Gauteng High Court ruled in its favour.
Public meetings on the e-tolling of Gauteng freeways are being poorly attended, the Opposition To Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has said.
Motorists will have to wait a little longer to learn when they will have to start shelling out cash for e-tolling, if at all.
We speak to motorists and Outa chairperson Wayne Duvenage about the fate and impact of e-tolling when the public takes government to court.
With SA’s economic standing at stake, Kgalema Motlanthe will this week convene a government task team to figure a way out of the e-tolling mess.
With e-tolling on hold, the onus is on the state to prove to the court and the public that alternatives to the controversial system were not viable.
The court challenge to e-tolling by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance must be heard before the system is implemented, a judge has ruled.
Amid more court action and warnings of freeway blockades to protest e-tolling, it seems motorists who have already signed up may have to re-register.