**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...
**E-toll update notice to Gauteng motorists* * SUBMISSIONS & PRESENTATIONS The Gauteng e-Toll Advisory Panel has requested that any organisation wishi...
**OUTA requests SANRAL to clarify intent to prosecute* * The announcement by the new Gauteng Premier David Makhura to set up a special panel to review...
**OUTA cautiously welcomes review on e-tolls* * “It is however very important that this does not simply become another co-option tactic that degenerat...
**E-toll survey shows 71% remain un-tagged* * Seventy one percent of our second statistically sound sample size of 2700 vehicles, counted during peak ...
**Disrespect for human rights erodes SANRAL legitimacy* * In a comprehensive 10,000 word complaint lodged with the Office of the Public Protector on b...
**Taxi's and billing problems highlight e-toll complexity* * Following pressure from the taxi industry in 2011, SANRAL offered full exemption for taxi...
**SANRAL’s disaster recovery failure is alarming* * It appears that following the precautions taken due to yesterday’s anthrax scare evacuation, the E...
**OUTA condemns anthrax scare at ETC operations centre* * “We trust that no one was endangered and hope that this incident was a false alarm", said OU...
**E-tolls: to tag or not and if not, then what?* * In short, motorists are extremely angry about the treatment they are receiving from SANRAL over the...
**E-toll system on brink of collapse?* * Following the announcement of Mr Ben Theron’s resignation, the Chief Operations Officer of the Electronic Tol...
**2014 – the year of sanity on e-tolls?* * The extent of the rejection of e-tolls by Gauteng road users is not only in the 80 to 85% of freeway users ...
**SANRAL misleads once again with 17% cost claim* * E-toll collection and administration systems in the US, for example, cost just over 5%. As Wayne D...
**Zuma’s speak needs to be actioned on e-tolls* * In his address he mentions that ‘South Africans ... want to be engaged continuously and have strong ...
**OUTA’s surprised at ETC’s CEO d-day resignation* * Clearly something is amiss and if Mr Yacoubi’s departure is not for personal/emergency reasons, t...
**E-toll ‘ducks won’t fly’ soon* * The unexpected signing by President Zuma of the Transport Related Amendment Matters Bill last month has given ferti...
— October 2013
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