Johannesburg - Government has not listened to the people of Gauteng regarding e-tolls, Cosatu in the province said on Thursday.
“We have previously demanded that the system should be scrapped and alternatives be explored to pay for the draconian system,” provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile told reporters in Johannesburg.
“Our government has not listened to the views of the people in the province.”
He said the Congress of SA Trade Unions would thus continue its protest action against e-tolls.
The trade union federation, along with the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance and the National Taxi Alliance, would stage a protest on Saturday.
BURNING E-TAGS
The protest would start at Cosatu House in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and make its way to the SA National Roads Agency Limited's (Sanral) offices in Pretoria. A protest would also start in Hatfield, Pretoria.
“We are going to hand over a memorandum to the Sanral offices... including burning of the e-tags and the bills which had been received by our people,” Dakile said.
He accused Sanral of abusing more than R20 billion on upgrading the province's highways without consulting citizens.
“We call this action of Sanral as selling our public roads to the highest bidder and to monopoly capital without caring about our country and its people.”
Sapa