Speculation is rife that a national fuel levy is likely to replace e-tolling as the ANC back-pedals on its controversial decision to toll Gauteng’s freeways to repay its R20bn public infrastructure debt, reports the financial media.
Fin24.com reports that the ANC is said to be wary of going into the 2016 municipal elections without tackling e-tolling, which has contributed to its electoral decline in the country’s economic heartland. In the national general elections, the ANC dropped from 64% in 2009 to 54%.
Last week Friday Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, announced that he would set up a panel “to review the impact of e-tolls and invite new proposals on how we can find a lasting solution to this matter”. But the financial press reports a “Gauteng ANC leader” as suggesting that a national levy was the most viable alternative to the current system.
Could a fuel levy replace the controversial e-tolls?
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