Business Unity SA (Busa) has requested a meeting with the inter-ministerial committee tasked with addressing issues related to e-tolling, it said on Thursday. “Busa has… approached deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, as chair of the...
SANRAL CEO Nazir Alli, who resigned last month, is to “stay put”, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said today. “There is no search for a new CEO,” Motlanthe said in Cape Town. Speaking in Cape Town at a media briefing on the controversial...
Future of e-tolls up in the air as Cabinet mulls ways to keep national roads agency’s wheels turning. Uncertainty caused by the court interdict halting the collection of toll fees for the Gauteng freeway improvement project has prompted Cabinet to...
Sanral CEO Nazir Alli, who resigned last month, is to “stay put”, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday. “There is no search for a new CEO,” Motlanthe said in Cape Town. Speaking in Cape Town at a media...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has reiterated the need for government to get its house in order. The lack of infrastructure development due to projects not being undertaken as well as tender processes taking up to three years to...
AfriForum was preparing a court challenge to the e-tolling penalty tariff for non-registered users, the lobby group said on Tuesday. It had already sent a lawyer’s letter to the transport department demanding the penalty tariff notice...
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) may have to buy back bonds, the Auditor-General is warning of disclaimers and qualified audits, there are questions around whether Sanral would remain an going concern and the potential for increased...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has made an unusual appeal to the Constitutional Court in a bid to set aside the high court order halting e-tolling. “At the heart of the dispute in this case, lies a fundamental issue regarding separation of...
The tonnage of freight transported on South Africa’s roads grew by almost 40% since 2003, signalling that urgent attention is needed for the upgrading and maintenance of the country’s roads. On rural roads and rail, the increase was above 80%. In...