COSATU to strike against e-tolls
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 joined by many thousands more angry residents and motorists who support our demand for the scrapping of these tolls and the end to privatisation and commodification of our public services, which includes our transport network.
Popular opposition to the tolls is overwhelming, in particular to the latest statements by Sanral, threatening motorists who do not register for e-tags with having to pay a punitive rate to use the toll roads, as high as R2 per kilometre, nearly six times higher than the rate for those who have registered.
Having being forced to concede that buying an e-tag is not a legal requirement, they are now trying to bully and blackmail motorists into registering.
These threats will have the exact opposite effect. They will infuriate people and make them even more determined to follow COSATU's advice not to register and not to buy an e-tag.