{"id":86394,"date":"2024-03-03T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=86394"},"modified":"2024-03-03T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T08:00:27","slug":"outa-da-and-rise-mzansi-threaten-premier-over-e-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/outa-da-and-rise-mzansi-threaten-premier-over-e-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"OUTA, DA and Rise Mzansi threaten Premier over e-tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n

3-minute read
\n03 March 2024 | 10:00 CAT<\/p>\n

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Outa has been one of the staunchest critics of e-tolls. File image. Photo\/ TimesLIVE<\/p><\/div>\n

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), the DA and new kid-on-the-block, Rise Mzansi, have all threatened Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi over his failed promise to scrap e-tolls.<\/p>\n

Reports indicate that the Gauteng provincial government, led by Lesufi, plans to continue to collect revenue from motorists despite a promise to end the failed system.<\/p>\n

Lesufi, in his Gauteng State of the Province Address (Sopa) on 19 February, had said e-tolls would be phased out by the end of next month.<\/p>\n

However, Mampho Modise, deputy director-general of public finance at National Treasury, revealed in an interview with Moneyweb that the Gauteng provincial government would continue to collect outstanding debt from road users.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the ensuing confusion, the CEO of the civil action organisation, Wayne Duvenage, said that the organisation would defend motorists against the government.<\/p>\n

Out of questions, Modise\u2019s statement calls it confusing since e-toll debt by motorists is collected by Sanral and not the Gauteng provincial government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes the threat of going after those with outstanding e-toll debts more confusing is that Sanral stopped issuing summonses against e-toll defaulters in 2019, and most of this debt has now prescribed,\u201d says Duvenage.<\/p>\n

Out of said, those in government intent on dragging out the e-toll matter had forgotten the test court case between Sanral and Outa supporters for summonses issued for outstanding e-toll debt, which remained in limbo.<\/p>\n

Since February 2019, Outa lawyers have defended 2,028 cases on behalf of e-toll defaulters who received summonses from Sanral, with a total value of more than R262m.<\/p>\n

In an open letter to Lesufi this week, Rise Mzansi\u2019s Gauteng Premier candidate, Vuyiswa Ramokgopa, demanded the release of all records on e-tolls to the public within seven days. He added that should the Premier fail to scrap the e-tolls by the end of next month, he ought to resign.<\/p>\n

The DA in the province has also come out strongly against Lesufi for his \u2018deceitful\u2019 pronouncement about e-tolls, with Gauteng provincial shadow MEC of roads and logistics, Fred Nel, saying R12.9 billion to pay the debt was worrying.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview on The Daily Round Up with Moulana Junaid Kharsany and CEO of the civil action organisation, Wayne Duvenage, Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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