Outa slams delays in scrapping e-toll system

JOHANNESBURG - Outa CEO Wayne Duvenage says they never opposed the user-pay principle or e-tolls technology.

But he says after researching the feasibility of the system, they knew that the system would fail.

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Duvenage says government is in the habit of just legislating with hopes everything else will fall into place.

He was speaking to JJ Tabane on Power to Truth.

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"We were not opposed to the technology, we're not opposed to the user-pay principle as they make us out to be.

"All the red flags went up and we did our research and said this will fail," Duvenage said.

"Government must get out of the habit that if they just legislate something, everything else will fall into place."