But the roads agency, flush from its victory in Gauteng, is up against very different odds.
An official who heads office of deputy president says car-hire company Avis must distance itself from e-toll opponents or suffer the consequences.
Legislation paving the way for putting e-tolling on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project into practice has been approved in the National Assembly.
North West provincial government explains its decision.
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance has urged Gauteng motorists to use every legal right available to make the e-tolling system ‘unworkable’.
Highways in Ekurhuleni and Jo’burg will be gridlocked on Thursday as Cosatu protests against the controversial e-tolling system.
Any person who damaged property during the scheduled e-toll protests would have to face the law, says the government.
The government might have thought that, after the ConCourt delivered its judgment Sanral’s e-tolling matter, a new era had been ushered in.
The state is trying to work out how to raise the funding shortfall needed to meet e-tolling’s contractual obligations. But it won’t raise the deficit.
Sanral CEO Nazir Alli, who resigned last month, is to "stay put", says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.
The government’s obvious displeasure with the courts should not be a sufficient excuse to avoid debate on the appropriate scope for judicial activity.
The government was rallying to defend its Gauteng e-tolling project, it announced on Thursday, despite mounting public fury against the plan.
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.
The transport department has defended S’bu Ndebele’s relationship with close ally Chris Hlabisa and accused the M&G of "mischievous intentions".
Days before his resignation from Sanral, outgoing CEO Nazir Alli turned to the office of the public protector to clear the beleaguered agency’s name.
Will the South African National Roads Agency Limited get a new boss who is much closer to Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele than Nazir Alli was?
Sanral CEO Nazir Alli’s resignation was not a case of falling on his sword, but rather due to frustration with government’s panic over e-tolling.
The Democratic Alliance says the public protector has agreed to consider its request for a probe into the Gauteng e-tolling contracts.
Sanral CEO Nazir Alli has resigned, a week after a judge put the brakes on the controversial e-tolling system being rolled out on Gauteng’s highways.
The resignation of Sanral’s CEO Nazir Alli has evoked mixed reaction from civil society, unions and political parties.
As CEO Nazir Alli resigns, treasury told parliamentarians that Sanral would only be able to survive another six months through "major sacrifices".
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.
Sanral has warned that motorists who do not register for e-tags will pay nearly six times more for e-tolls on Gauteng’s highways as a punitive rate.
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.
The terms and conditions signed by motorists when registering for toll road e-tags are not in line with the CPA, the consumer commissioner says.
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/ 20 January 2012
The chaotic series of reversals that have delayed the tolling of Gauteng’s gleaming new highways must be very much open to question.
The e-tolling fracas in Gauteng is adding to the road agency’s unsustainable debt, and casting doubts on the government’s overall transport strategy.
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/ 23 December 2011
The SA National Roads Agency was contacting customers on Friday to reverse administration charges deducted erroneously from e-tag accounts.
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/ 7 November 2011
Sanral says toll account registrations and e-tag distribution for motorists for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project is due to begin next week.
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/ 9 September 2011
Government has an R808-billion arsenal which it plans to use on maintaining and improving the country’s infrastructure over the next three years.
Opponents of the N2 toll road that will snake through the Wild Coast are ready to take their battle to the highest court.