PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet is currently weighing up the financial implications of scrapping e-tolls or leaving it in place, says acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.
In a post-cabinet briefing on Thursday (27 May), Ntshavheni said it was clear that the Gauteng provincial government wants the system removed.
She added that the government is now looking at the ‘different permutations’ of scrapping the system, given the financial commitments made around the scheme.
Ntshavheni’s comments come after Gauteng’s Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo told SAfm that e-tolls would be scrapped. However, he later walked back the statements on social media – indicating that this was just his personal position.
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula subsequently confirmed that an official decision has not yet been made, and that Mamabolo’s comments were from the position of the Gauteng government’s lobbying to have the system removed.
Mbalula promised the National Council of Provinces earlier this
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