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The Freedom Front Plus will be handing a submission about the alternative ways in which to finance the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project to the inter-ministerial committee on e-tolling chaired by deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe. “There will actually have to be looked further for the funding for the building of new roads and the maintenance thereof on a national level. A holistic solution should be sought and this also means that the government will have to meet its obligation to stop the growing tendency of corruption. The public is getting the impression that they can be milked willy-nilly while government is governing recklessly and spending money without thinking about where the income is coming from,” adv. Anton Alberts, FF Plus parliamentary spokesperson on Transport said.

“That is why the FF Plus once again wants to make government aware of their responsibility to work effectively and responsibly with our tax money. One of the examples of the wasting of taxpayers’ money is particularly the opposing of the interdict application against the e-tolling system and the appeal thereof in the Constitutional Court. Despite the government’s victory in the appeals case, the government now decided to consult further. Although one should be grateful for the further consultation, one has to ask whether the government should not have done this properly before the court cases. Furthermore one gets the impression that this further consultation is being done merely for window-dressing and that the government will in any case steamroller the process. That is why the FF Plus still intends supporting the revision application of Outa in November if the government is not going to listen to reason.”