Outa says shutting down e-tolls was a multi-pronged battled fought through courts, official inquiries and protest action.
The organisation has been at the forefront of the fight against e-tolls which were introduced to fund the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project .was a multi-pronged battle fought through courts and official inquiries, across social media, in protest action on the highways, bridges, and outside government offices, and in Parliament.
The conflict that arose over e-tolls was presided over by seven ministers of transport, a trail of finance ministers, and three presidents, who collectively could not resolve the problem for twelve years. “Bad laws need to be treated in a manner that sends the government back to the drawing board, and one such avenue is civil disobedience, which Outa drove. Fortunately, the general motoring public stood strong and collapsed the system,” he added.“Public participation must be meaningful and thorough and should demonstrate that public input has been taken seriously if new policies and laws are to be respected.
In addition, Outa reiterated that it was not opposed to the user-pays principle, or the use of electronic tolling technology that Sanral attempted to use.
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