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Makhura to release e-toll findings soon - paper

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 11 Jan 2015
Low e-toll compliance rates mean that Sanral is in danger of defaulting on the R20 billion debt incurred for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.
Low e-toll compliance rates mean that Sanral is in danger of defaulting on the R20 billion debt incurred for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project.

Gauteng premier David Makhura is set to make the recommendations and findings of the e-tolls review panel public in the coming weeks, says the Sunday Times this weekend.

The newspaper quotes Gauteng government spokesman Thabo Masebe as saying that Makhura plans to release the report of the panel "in the next four weeks or so".

Makhura appointed the panel last year to assess the socio-economic impact of e-tolling on the Gauteng province.

According to the paper, Makhura's decision to convene the panel was prompted "by the hammering the ANC received in Gauteng" in last year's general elections.

According to the Sunday Times, Masebe said that Makhura has started consultations with the national government and three Gauteng metros, after receiving the panel's report in November last year.

The paper also reported that the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) continues to lose millions of rands "as e-toll compliance levels stay low".

"Against a projected total of R284 million for November and December, Sanral took in just R137 million," says the publication.

Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona reportedly said that if the situation continues, the agency would be unable to service the R20 billion debt it incurred for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, leading to investors calling on the government guarantee to receive payment for all guaranteed bonds.

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