Swartruggens toll protest to go ahead
2013-01-24 13:04
Mahikeng - A planned protest at the Swartruggens toll plaza
in North West will go ahead on Friday, Cosatu said.
This is despite hiccups experienced obtaining permission
from law enforcement last week, Congress of SA Trade Unions North West
provincial secretary Solly Phetoe said on Thursday.
Cosatu wanted to hold an overnight protest last week to
demand that toll fees be scrapped, or reduced from R71 to R20 for a standard
car. While it did not have permission for an overnight protest, it would be
allowed to march on Friday, he said.
"We will be marching to the toll gate to demand answers
on the memoranda submitted to the department of transport and Sanral [the SA
National Roads Agency Limited] to reduce the toll fees, as it put a social
burden [on] to the poor people of the province and the country in
general," Phetoe said.
The march to the toll gate would start at noon from
Swartruggens.
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