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South Africa's auditor-general says tolls needed
South Africa's auditor general Terence Novembre says the national roads authority SANRAL needs the tolls from the ambitious toll-financed Gauteng highway improvement scheme to remain solvent. Failure to proceed with the start-up of tolling and gain the expected revenue stream could "cast significant doubt on the entity’s ability to fund its obligations."
A district judge issued an injunction ('interdict' in local english) just days before tolling was set to begin 5 months ago. The country's constitutional court just recently quashed the injunction.
South Africa's Constitutional Court over-rules Pretoria judge's injunction against start of Gauteng tolls but talks continue with toll critics
2012-09-28: The South African government is moving ahead with the all-electronic toll system - known there as e-toll - that was put on hold just days before it was due to start April 30.
The anti-toll opposition's naive notion of 'ring fencing' a new fuel tax – the sad American experience: An op-ed for a S African newspaper
By Peter Samuel on August 26, 2012
2012-08-26: An op-ed written for a South African newspaper, by Peter Samuel: Many critics of tolls simply don't want to pay for a using a
road. They want a free ride.
SANRAL's Nazir Alli staying on at South African national toller
By Peter Samuel on May 31, 2012
2012-05-31: Nazir Alli, the longtime head of the South Africa National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is to stay on as chief executive after
all, suggesting that the Government may be strengthening its resolve to see through the controversial Gauteng e-toll system.
S Africa's e-toll imperiled by protests, split in government, and judge's stay on start of tolling
By Peter Samuel on May 15, 2012
2012-05-15: The future of South Africa's all-electronic toll system is in serious question following a court injunction against the planned start of tolling, and the resignation of Nazir Alli, the longtime chief executive of SANRAL (South Africa National Roads Authority Ltd,) the national government's toll authority.
South Africa's union bosses threaten to block new toll system with mobs
By Peter Samuel on March 7, 2012
"We will make this system unworkable," Zwelinzima Vavi general secretary of Cosatu the major labor union federation of South Africa declared addressing a huge crowd of tens of thousands in Johannesburg yesterday, according to local reports. Tolls are due to begin on March 28 under government plans for Johannesburg/Pretoria area expressways.
S Africa's ambitious all-electronic tollroad network survives political storm with compromises on toll rates - due to toll by year's end
By Peter Samuel on August 31, 2011
Around the end of this year South Africa is due to open the first phase of perhaps the world's most ambitious highway speed all-electronic toll system.
South Africa's bold all-electronic toll system on expressway network upgrade in Jo'burg
By Peter Samuel on September 30, 2009
By April 2011 Johannesburg metro area in South Africa should have a world class
all electronic toll (AET) system doing upwards of 2m toll transactions/day and collecting $500m/year.
