GAUTENG TOLL GATE PROJECT: SOUTH AFRICANS BEING EXPLOITED BY FOREIGN INTERESTS

 "The FF Plus finds it totally unacceptable that a foreign company will be managing the collection of toll gate fees on the Gauteng Open Toll Gate System, while South African companies are currently struggling and unemployment is one of the central problems of the country (see Star report). It is a disgrace that SANRAL has awarded the contract to a consortium of which the major share holder is an Austrian firm (Kapsch TrafficCom AG)," is the opinion of Adv. Anton Alberts the parliamentary spokesperson on Transport for the Freedom Front Plus.

"It is beginning to be clearer that the toll gate system has been developed to milk the public and serve the government and certain corporate interests only. The fact that GijimaAST, the South African company who had previously been involved in a legal wrangle with the department of Home Affairs, also forms part of the consortium is further proof that certain individuals keep on being favoured regardless of their performance record," Adv. Alberts added.

The FF Plus will be requesting the Minister of Transport in Parliament to find out why the government is not keeping to its own rules which has as its aim the empowerment of South African companies. The party would also like to know from the Minister why businesses which harm the state and taxpayers are not excluded from tender processes.

Statement issued by Adv. Anton Alberts, FF Plus Parliamentary Spokesperson: Transport, February 15 2011

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