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SA: Statement by the Department of Roads and Transport, on drastic measures needed to improve road infrastructure (05/06/2013)

STATEMENT

With the province's population growing rapidly, drastic measures are needed to improve road infrastructure as it will be heavily burdened in the future. The Gauteng Department of Roads and...

R18.85bn for road maintenance, tolling to remain policy

TRANSPORT

The Department of Transport (DoT) has a budget of R42.3-billion for the 2013/14 financial year, of which R18.85-billion would be transferred to provinces and municipalities for road maintenance,...

SA: Statement by the North West Office of the Premier, on the intensification of economic infrastructure delivery (22/05/2013)

STATEMENT

Roads in the North West province are a lot safer after 120 000 potholes and 800 kilometers of tarred road were repaired on the public roads network in the past six months. Briefing provincial...

SANRAL: Statement by South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited, responds to the Democratic Alliance statement on funding of road infrastructure (19/05/2013)

STATEMENT

The Democratic Alliance's claims, backed by dubious studies, that the fuel levy is sufficient to fund road infrastructure are shockingly misleading, SANRAL has announced. Responding to a press...

DA: Statement by Ian Ollis, DA Shadow Minister of Transport, asserts that the South African Roads Agency Limited is misleading public about lack of funds (19/05/2013)

STATEMENT

Two independent studies by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) and the Southern African Bitumen Association (Sabita) confirm that the South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is...

No open road tolling planned for Cape Town

TOLL ROADS

The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has dismissed allegations that it will implement the same Open Road Tolling system in Cape Town as it has in Gauteng. Sanral has labelled...

SA: Statement by the North West Provincial Government, on road infrastructure in North West (28/02/2013)

STATEMENT

The decision to appoint of SANRAL to roll out road infrastructure in the North West province was taken after irregularities and corruption related to awarding of road construction tenders was...

Gauteng’s aerotropolis master plan to get under way

STATE OF THE PROVINCE

The development of a master plan for the aerotropolis concept around South Africa’s busiest airport was set to get under way following the appointment of Gautrain Management Agency CEO Jack van...

SA: Statement by the Department of Trade and Industry, Deputy Minister Thabethe optimistic about increasing Trade between South Africa and Equatorial Guinea (07/02/2013)

STATEMENT

The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe today concluded an Outward Trade and Investment Mission to the Equatorial Guinea where she led a delegation of South African...

SA: Ben Martins: Address by the Minister of Transport, at the official opening of the Misgund Interchange and the launch of the Gauteng On-Road Emergency Services, Gauteng (31/01/2013)

SPEECH

I am pleased to participate in this occasion to unveil yet another landmark development in government's programme to provide adequate transport infrastructure, as a requirement for socio-economic...

SA: Statement by the Presidency and the South African Council of Churches, on consultative meeting between Government and Religious Leaders on Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (02/10/2012)

STATEMENT

Government and religious leaders under the banners of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the National Interfaith Council of SA and the National Religious Association for Social...

SA: Statement by Government, welcomes Constitutional Court’s ruling on the appeal of the order made by the North Gauteng High Court (20/09/2012)

STATEMENT

Government welcomes the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the appeal of the order made by the North Gauteng High Court on the implementation of the e-toll system on the Gauteng highways. The...

Solutions on GFIP need exploration – Motlanthe

TOLLS

The best possible solutions needed to be explored for the implementation of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said in Johannesburg on Friday. "There...

SA: Statement by Thuli Madonsela, Public Protecter, on Eastern Cape public hearings on service delivery (18/07/2012)

STATEMENT

Hundreds of desperate community members braved the cold weather conditions in Cala, Eastern Cape on Wednesday for an opportunity to bring their service delivery grievances to Public Protector Adv...

Outa spells out its position on Gauteng toll roads

TOLL ROADS

There are many reasons the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) is against the tolling of Gauteng’s freeways, says chairperson Wayne Duvenage, one of these being what the alliance believes...

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