There are ways to buck the e-toll system
T WOULD appear from reports that many people have fallen for the falsehood of “user pays”, have bought e-tags and are even attempting to pay from the SMS notices.
The fact is, all citizens of this country have already paid, many times over.
Perhaps they have not seen the auditor-general’s reports which lists that “wasteful and unexplained” government expenditure was over R68 billion in the past two years alone.
This would easily have paid for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project more than three times over, and clearly indicates the outrageous levels of corruption and
Ilooting taking place. I am amazed that so many Gauteng motorists are simply prepared to put more into the gravy trough.
I feel it is my patriotic obligation to do whatever I can to highlight the indisputable fact that our corrupt officials are using the ploy of e-tolls to further line their own pockets, or else why was the “missing” R68bn not allocated for the roads instead of causing the chaos and resentment of tolls as well as the huge amount of money which will flow to a European company?
I will not, under any circumstances, pay any fines or toll fees.
All of my meagre assets are held in trust accounts of which I am not a trustee so I have nothing which they can attach.
Sanral’s only option would be to imprison a sickly old man who is standing up for his principles, which should attract widespread international negative reporting about the fact that the ANC are no longer “freedom fighters” but a bunch of corrupt individuals looting the country. Outa, please take note. An action which I am taking, that I hope will be followed by many other motorists, is to position my car as closely as possible between two cameras. It is perfectly legal, and often necessary, to change lanes on a freeway. By adjusting speed and taking careful note of the other cars around you, there is no offence in making a “lane change” as you pass under a gantry. If the cameras do not have wide enough lenses, you will not be “caught”, but if they do have the range and it is processed automatically, you will receive two accounts, which of course is illegal and contestable.
I hope that this will cause further administration chaos, and will give me grounds to have my desired “day in court”.
Perhaps the most important aspect that has not been realised by those who have accepted e-tolls, is the fact that most legal arguments are based on precedent.
As e-tolls are a new item, there is at present no precedent, so the first court case will establish one.
If Sanral wins the case, the precedent will be set and there will be nothing to stop further gantries being erected all over the country. Cape Town and Durban of course will be next, but repairing a pothole in some dorp could class as “improvement”, so gantries could appear there to “cover the costs”.
I would expect nothing less from our corrupt, looting government seeking even more than the R68bn looted over the past two years. Les Crusoe