Cosatu calls on scrapping Gauteng e-tolls completely

Oscar Thomas
17 January 2015

The Congress of South African Trade Union says it stands firm on its stance that e-tolls need to be scrapped. 

On Thursday Gauteng Premier David Makura said the e-toll systems needs to be reviwed.

Cosatu’s Patrick Craven said the system in its current form is unaffordable and is a burden on low and middle income households. 

Craven said despite conceding that the e-toll system in its current form is unaffordable and inequitable and places a disproportionate burden on low and middle income households and is also administratively cumbersome,

Craven said the panel shies away from the obvious conclusion from this that the system, which has been overwhelmingly rejected by the people of Gauteng, should be abandoned.

“It merely argues that elements of the current e-toll system must be reviewed to address the questions of affordability, equity, fairness, administrative simplicity and sustainability, without admitting that it is the whole system which is unaffordable, ineqitable, unfair and unsustainable Craven added.