The management of water quality in Kwa-Zulu-Natal had improved by as much as 10 percent since last year, according to the national Blue Drop report released yesterday. SA’s drinking water is among the best in the world – and one of just a handful...
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...
South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL)’s CEO, Nazir Alli, has resigned. This surprising development comes a week after Judge Bill Prinsloo put the brakes on the controversial e-tolling system being rolled out on Gauteng’s highways....
Cabinet has said that an inter-ministerial committee set up to deal with e-tolling, “will move with urgency to ensure that South African National Roads Agency’s (Sanral’s) financial stability is not affected in any way.” The committee, to be...
It’s been almost a week since the landmark court ruling postponing the implementation of e-tolling in Gauteng. Joe Public has won a battle but perhaps not the war. The South African government and its agency, the South African National Roads Agency...
Yesterday, the Road Freight Association (RFA) lodged papers to join the legal proceedings brought by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance, South African Vehicle Renting and Leasing Association, Quadpara Association of South Africa and the South...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is mobilizing its two million members for the mother of all protests against the act of highway robbery set to be committed from 30 April 2012 – the Gauteng e-tolls! We are confident that we will be...
E-toll rate shock: R1.75 a kilometre! Drivers who don’t buy an e-tag for Gauteng’s new toll roads will face a punitive tariff of R1.75 a kilometre. An e-tag user will pay 30c a kilometre, while an “alternative user” is to be charged six times that...
The first salvo in the fight against eTolls was fired on Friday last week with the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) filing an urgent application in the North Gauteng High Court to seek an interdict restraining the SA National Roads...