* *OUTA petitions against holiday season “consultation”* * The government has used the holiday shutdown to sneak in the legally required public partic...
* *France to drop carbon tax plan: Les Echos** * * The newspaper, quoting several sources, said the socialist government will not include the carbon t...
* *Carbon Tax: An unnecessary burden to South Africa** * * Recent announcements indicate that the Department of Treasury will implement the tax early ...
**Questions arise from SANRAL’s annual report, ahead of bond auction* * The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) believes these pertinent matte...
**SANRAL’s anti-development threats are outrageous* * "It was a ludicrous idea for SANRAL to accept an unsolicited bid to toll the Western Cape's free...
**Ramaphosa's e-toll talk is sheer propaganda* * The vast majority (estimated at over 90%) of the submissions by those who attended the Gauteng e-toll...
**OUTA Chairman's report: 2014/2015* * Some sixteen months ago, The Department of Transport and SANRAL decided to forge ahead with their plans to laun...
**SANRAL’s Western Cape tolling plan is outrageous* * The ruling echoes the concerns expressed by other judgments against SANRAL over the past decade,...
**OUTA concerned about allegations of SANRAL fraud on N2 Wild Coast toll road* * In response to reports that SANRAL has submitted evidently false depo...
**OUTA response to Minister Nene’s budget speech* * In response to Minister Nene’s budget speech statements with regard to the e-toll fiasco, the Oppo...
**E-toll conflict prevails: panel has misread legal status of e-tolls** While the Gauteng Provincial Government deserves applause for initiating a nec...
**E-toll workshops - good and disappointing outcomes* * Furthermore, OUTA’s vindication has been heightened by the support expressed during the worksh...
**E-toll review panel misunderstands the legitimacy of civil disobedience* * At the outset, we reject the position taken by the panel that there is ‘n...
**More concerns than compliments on Gauteng’s e-Toll Advisory Panel report* * While we will require a little more time to digest the full content of t...
**One year on, e-tolls remains an embarrassing mess* * It’s called Democracy. South Africa is suffering from a power failure. No, not just that of Esk...
**Do the maths Minister: R3.65/litre is absurd* * Dipuo Peters’ statement that a further R3.65 will need to be added to the fuel levy, if indeed the f...
**Minister plays power and forsakes authority* * At the very least we were hoping that SANRAL and the Department of Transport (DoT) would acknowledge ...
**Minister Peters e-toll comments are confusing* * This essentially means that following Premier Makhura’s reference to his panel initiative as having...
**OUTA appreciates panel opportunity* * The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) believes this panel is equipped with the sincerity, the desire...
**OUTA welcomes Western Cape judgement against SANRAL* * SANRAL’s attempt to prevent the City of Cape Town from filing papers in an open court is just...
— August 2014
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