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TimesLive reports that Cosatu in Gauteng will embark on a stayaway on Friday to protest against e-tolls and will deliver a memorandum to President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria.
The trade union federation said on Sunday it was angered over finance minister Tito Mboweni’s announcement that government would continue with the current system of e-tolls. In his medium-term budget policy statement on Wednesday‚ Mboweni said if the country wanted a road transport infrastructure that worked‚ “we need to pay our tolls”. He added that government remained committed to the 'user pays' principle because it was the most effective way to ensure that the direct benefits of services were paid for by those who used them. In a media briefing on Sunday‚ Cosatu’s Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile said the e-tolls represented daylight robbery of the people of Gauteng. He stated: “We continue to reject the user-pays principle as a funding model for the improvement of the roads‚ because in our view‚ government has sufficient resources through the fuel levy to pay for the road infrastructure.” He suggested that 10c of the R3.37 per litre fuel levy be set aside to service the e-toll debt.
- Read this report by Ernest Mabuza in full at TimesLive
- See too, Cosatu to march to Union Buildings on Friday over e-tolls, at EWN
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