Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said on Wednesday during his interim budget speech that the offending e-toll project will continue and consumers will be held responsible for the costs, with payments now being tightened and regulated. The people of the Central Transvaal will have to fall in love with the fact that Minister is not prepared to abandon the e-toll system.
The government will continue its strategy of keeping consumers accountable for the cost of maintaining Gauteng’s highways. The ANC’s policy of the user must apparently pay money only in the case of e-tolls applied on certain roads.
He further said that it is because of consumers who fail to support this project that the province’s roads are deteriorating further. “We can’t maintain the network.”
“I encourage South Africa to please settle their accounts. We need to establish a culture of payment because the government’s services can only continue if all consumers, who can pay, do pay, ”he added
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