E-tolls report: More than gantries The Gauteng e-tolls review is a text for present and future South Africa. Wade through the detail – theres a lot – and its thoughtful, about who we are as a country and where we are going. Its about democracy, apartheid, the poor, and realising South Africas goals. It clearly doesnt limit itself to e-tolls. But youll still have to pay, something. By GREG NICOLSON. It started with an election. Last year Gauteng showed it is losing faith in the ANC. When it came to appointing a premier, the party in the province, which is losing faith in President Zuma, forced its hand and David Makhura took the job. He got a hospital pass – a province on the brink of voting the ANC out in the metros in 2016. So Makhura took a key issue, e-tolls, and, with the help of Gauteng ANC, challenged it. The result is the “Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project and E-tolls Report” from the premiers advisory panel, released on Thursday. More of a thesis, its as grand, opaque and as difficult to understand as e-tolls. Makhura took away two points: for a province still defined by apartheids spatial boundaries, the gantries sit like gates to accessing economic opportunities. Read: E-tolls hurt the poor. And, we need continued public engagement and a mixed financing model to pay for the roads. But the report goes further. Uniquely uniting different sectors of society – poor, rich, black
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:04:53 +0000
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