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BusinessLive reports that trade union federation Cosatu in Gauteng says President Cyril Ramaphosa should call finance minister Tito Mboweni to order after a social media spat with Gauteng premier David Makhura over the scrapping of e-tolls.
The SA National Roads Agency of SA's (Sanral’s) e-tolling project, launched in 2013, has largely been a failure as a result of low levels of compliance from Gauteng motorists. The finance minister, who has been vocal about the need to keep the e-toll system functioning, criticised Makhura’s vow to remove it from Gauteng’s roads. In a series of tweets, Mboweni emphasised the need to comply with the user-pay principle of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project. Cosatu said it “strongly condemns” Mboweni’s attitude towards policy direction and that he was “disrespecting” intergovernmental relations by using social media as a platform to engage Makhura on the matter. The Presidency advised in a statement that Ramaphosa had mandated transport minister Fikile Mbalula, Mboweni and Makhura to submit a solution to cabinet on the impasse around e-tolls by the end of August. The President apparently remarked that “such exchanges on social media are unbecoming of their high offices and fail to provide the leadership required in this instance.”
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