South African National Roads Agency Limited’s (SANRAL) CEO Nazir Alli resigned today, the SANRAL board announced. The board has accepted Alli’s resignation and he will continue until 3 June.

After being with SANRAL since 1998, Alli’s decision came just over week after the North Gauteng High Court put a temporary halt on the controversial e-tolling system of the improved Gauteng highway system. SANRAL chairman Tembakazi Mnyaka said in a statement that the board’s immediate priority is to continue its role in operating and maintaining more than 16 000 km of national roads across the country; and will continue with the deliberations currently underway.

The e-tolling project of Gauteng highways caused great uproar among road users who were expected to pay between 30c per kilometer for registered users and 58c for unregistered users.