**60% discount on past e-toll debt is a farce and doesn't change anything* * We always said that applying extortionist and punitive tariffs was never ...
**Discrimination and inconsistencies in SANRAL’s road funding mechanisms arise* * While funding such important economic infrastructure with general ta...
**SANRAL's request for parliament to sanction withholding of licenses has serious ramifications for government* * From OUTA’s analysis of SANRAL’s rec...
**The e-toll scheme collapsed over 12 months ago** In 2012, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) presented the Inter Ministerial Committee ...
**Questions arise from SANRAL’s annual report, ahead of bond auction* * The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) believes these pertinent matte...
**E-toll revenues are grossly down* * “When comparing revenue growth and business performance, it is important to equate this to the same period last ...
**New e-toll tariffs: the inefficient farce continues* * “Cutting through the amendments to the previously failed scheme, one detects that no meaningf...
**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...
**Government's anti-poor fuel levy suggestions is futile* * “If this is indeed so, then government clearly has no regard for the poor, as they have in...
**E-toll dispensation – same farce, different lipstick* * While Government says they have lowered the tariffs, effectively they have not. They have me...
**Futile public transport leaves Gauteng commuters captive to roads* * Despite the poor safety issues (highlighted again by avoidable deaths from the ...
**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 prevarication on collusion matter suspicious* * The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) hoped it would find some common ground with S...
**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...
**Response to Premier Makhura's SOPA: e-toll solution requires an impartial social audit of SANRAL* * This is an unresolved historical conflict arisin...
**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...
**Unreliable and inconsistent: More e-toll inaccuracies* * The State said the information subpoenaed from SANRAL relating to vehicle passage under gan...
**Is e-tolling really pro-poor? OUTA challenges Dr Roelof Botha to a public debate* * Although he has retracted his statement that “those who don’t pa...
**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...
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