PREMIUM! Outa - the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse - hold a protest against e-tolls on the N1 highway in Johannesburg, 26 October 2018. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
The grand, failed e-tolls scheme – of which less than 20% of users are paying – is rising from the dead, as the ANC struggles to make ends meet in its budget. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in his budget speech last week vast infrastructure projects would be endangered “if the end user does not pay a cost-reflective tariff for usage”. Even opponents of e-tolls within the ANC appear to have been silenced. Gauteng premier David Makhura, who has in the past spoken in favour of scrapping the system, said not a word about it in his State of the.
Alleged corruption at Road Traffic Infringement Agency could put the brakes on new driving laws This does not bode well for a state-owned enterprise that the public will soon have to trust to handle billions of rands in traffic fine revenue, says Justice Project South Africa (JPSA).
The controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act, which was due to come into effect on 1 July 2021, might be delayed due to the start of a forensic investigation into alleged maladministration at the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA).
A number of senior RTIA employees have reportedly been suspended and it’s believed that the suspensions are tied to financial maladministration.
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula has announced that strict new rules around drunk driving and demerits will officially be introduced in South Africa in 2021.
The new Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act is expected to be formally introduced in 2021, along with the country’s new demerit…