No fear No Favour No Pretenses.............
Freight transport will be given a discount on the e-toll system. Picture: Lesego Ngobeni/EWN
Alex Eliseev | one hour ago SOUTH AFRICA 7 JUNE 2013 09:00
JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Alliance (DA) announced on Friday it would donate a R1 million to the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) to boost its legal battle against e-tolling.
This week Outa made an urgent appeal for funds saying it received notice from its lawyers and may have to abandon its case against roads agency Sanral.
The organisation said it needed to find R1 million in three weeks.
The DA's Mmusi Maimane said, “We thought that the residents of Gauteng have spoken and Outa’s been at the forefront of the fight against tolling and we thought that as a political party it’s helpful and important for us to be able to contribute to this issue.”
Outa's Wayne Duvenage said they are overwhelmed by the response from the public and now the DA.
He added that by last night they had raised R500,000.
“This has been the most incredible 24 hours in Outa’s life. When we put that call out on Wednesday we were really in a predicament to raise a R1 million in three weeks and we were always behind in raising funds and we really wanted to take a strong winnable cause to court.”
Meanwhile, Sanral claims Outa has been exposed as a front for the DA.
DIALOGUE ON E-TOLLS
Earlier on Friday Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's office said just because e-tolling is launching soon doesn't mean dialogue about the project should grind to a halt.
Motlanthe is due to meet church leaders in Pretoria to discuss their public challenge against the multibillion system.
Motlanthe's spokesperson Thabo Masebe said churches were part of initial meetings chaired by the deputy president.
“We can’t stop talking to people, it is important to talk to people because there might be misunderstandings on the basis of how we communicate.”
The Supreme Court of Appeal is due to hear the next phase of Outa's legal challenge on 25 September.
Meanwhile, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the churches are some of the organisations who are opposed to the controversial system.
Last week, Cosatu led a drive-slow in Gauteng against e-tolling.
The trade union federation believes the system will have a negative impact on the working class.
E-tolling is due to be launched within weeks, regardless of the pending court case.
EYE WITNESS NEWS
COMMENTS BY SONNY
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has received donations totalling R1,500.000.00 overnight.
They must be doing somerthing right.
GOD PROTECT JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Freight transport will be given a discount on the e-toll system. Picture: Lesego Ngobeni/EWN
Alex Eliseev | one hour ago SOUTH AFRICA 7 JUNE 2013 09:00
JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Alliance (DA) announced on Friday it would donate a R1 million to the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) to boost its legal battle against e-tolling.
This week Outa made an urgent appeal for funds saying it received notice from its lawyers and may have to abandon its case against roads agency Sanral.
The organisation said it needed to find R1 million in three weeks.
The DA's Mmusi Maimane said, “We thought that the residents of Gauteng have spoken and Outa’s been at the forefront of the fight against tolling and we thought that as a political party it’s helpful and important for us to be able to contribute to this issue.”
Outa's Wayne Duvenage said they are overwhelmed by the response from the public and now the DA.
He added that by last night they had raised R500,000.
“This has been the most incredible 24 hours in Outa’s life. When we put that call out on Wednesday we were really in a predicament to raise a R1 million in three weeks and we were always behind in raising funds and we really wanted to take a strong winnable cause to court.”
Meanwhile, Sanral claims Outa has been exposed as a front for the DA.
DIALOGUE ON E-TOLLS
Earlier on Friday Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's office said just because e-tolling is launching soon doesn't mean dialogue about the project should grind to a halt.
Motlanthe is due to meet church leaders in Pretoria to discuss their public challenge against the multibillion system.
Motlanthe's spokesperson Thabo Masebe said churches were part of initial meetings chaired by the deputy president.
“We can’t stop talking to people, it is important to talk to people because there might be misunderstandings on the basis of how we communicate.”
The Supreme Court of Appeal is due to hear the next phase of Outa's legal challenge on 25 September.
Meanwhile, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the churches are some of the organisations who are opposed to the controversial system.
Last week, Cosatu led a drive-slow in Gauteng against e-tolling.
The trade union federation believes the system will have a negative impact on the working class.
E-tolling is due to be launched within weeks, regardless of the pending court case.
EYE WITNESS NEWS
COMMENTS BY SONNY
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has received donations totalling R1,500.000.00 overnight.
They must be doing somerthing right.
GOD PROTECT JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear South African motorists and their friends,
ReplyDeleteTOLL ROADS ARE TO BE IMPLEMENTED NATIONWIDE. Finish and klaar.
This is not just a Gauteng concern, every province is targeted for tolls.
IT SEEMS TO BE ANOTHER SCAM ON US ALL FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF A FEW. Consider….
1) To fund the road costs by way of a small addition to the fuel levy would cost absolutely nil in collection fees. Nada, zilch!
2) The proposed tolls collection costs amount to nearly 40% of what you will pay under tolling. 40% versus nothing. Where is the reasoned thinking?
3) The collection fees (R5 billion a year) goes offshore to Austria , far from the auditor general’s reach and oversight powers. Petrol levies stay in S.A. and are audited.
4) R5 billion exported impoverishes us all. Our current account is already disastrous. R5 billion is the equivalent of just 20 new Zuma seraglios, but is still a lot of money.
Wayne Duvenage says we already collect R40 billion p.a. in fuel levies, much more than we need to sustain decent road structures.
Tolls are just another disguised tax like A.D.T., private schools and Discovery, paying for services which you have already paid for with your tax buck.
For-profit taxis are exempt from tolls, we producers still have to pay. Our Lords and Masters are dead scared of the taxis. So, I guess, are we all!
Daily we read of the huge financial scams being perpetrated on us by our scurvy elected Lords and Masters. Daily Huge amounts and no one is ever brought to account.
We are punch drunk and feel powerless. We know that this latest scheme is like the others. We know why they will not release the contract details, and are united in gatvolheid.
TOLL ROAD DISOBEDIENCE IS OUR CHANCE TO FIGHT BACK! And no one gets to bleed for a change. You can simply suck it up (again) or fight back.
A very simple solution is at hand. It will cost you nothing, give you immense satisfaction and screw those scumbags who wish to accumulate huge offshore bank accounts at your expense.
DO NOT REGISTER FOR E-TOLL TAGS. REGISTERING IS NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT. IF YOU DO NOT REGISTER THEY HAVE TO SEND YOU AN ACCOUNT, 300 THOUSAND ACCOUNTS A DAY, 10 BILLION ACCOUNTS PER YEAR, 10 BILLION! Quite impossible, and the scam will collapse.
Here is what you do :
Then query your account! What fun. They will have to send you a photo of every toll you have passed through, maybe 20 billion in total. Then you can argue that it was not you but a cloned licence plate. Demand proof that you were the driver. With individual identification.
DEMAND THAT THEIR 'LETTERS OF DEMAND' ARE SENT BY REGISTERED POST. Oh! The cost, the cost, the cost!
Defend the case if you have time, but it will never reach that stage, the logistics and costs would be too overwhelming for the possible scamsters to contemplate. Insist, in writing, that the guy in charge of the camera attend the court, then pay your R15 due the day before trial.
Over 20 years there is perhaps R160 billion at stake here, many times that when every province is targeted.
R160 billion of your, my and South Africa’s money, possibly diverted to crooks (they will not disclose the contracts which divulge where and to whom the toll fees are to be paid, so we cannot know).
Sincerely, if you are tired of being a milk cow, tired of seeing your hard worked-for earnings being ripped off for the benefit of a few connected yobboes, tired of being scammed,
DO NOT BUY AN E-TAG, THEY CANNOT LOCK YOU UP, CANNOT BEGIN TO FIGHT US ALL, AND CANNOT HOPE TO WIN.
Remember, the more draconian they get in trying to extort money from you, the more they will lose at the polls, and losing power is something they cannot afford as it would deny them the unlimited power of plunder they now enjoy.
Please send this to as many of your contacts as possible. Let this go viral
We will win for a change, and won’t that be satisfying!
Pleasepassthison
We also need to stand together against Fuel Hikes, taxes, and whatever scam they come with in the future.
Don't be fooled by the ANC War Cries....... Lost souls shouting!!