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Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League in Gauteng on Wednesday rejected the proposed toll system at a public hearing and demanded that it be shelved.
"The ANCYL is vehemently opposed to the tariffs as announced by SA National Roads Agency," secretary Ayanda Kasa-Ntsobi said in a statement.
"We demand that its implementation is not just postponed but that is shelved immediately."
She said the tariffs were "unjustifiably expensive" and not affordable to the working class and the poor.
"There is nothing fair or equitable about the proposed tolling system."
At the hearing, the league submitted that the system would have an adverse effect on economic growth.
"The state has a responsibility to fund infrastructure development and maintenance through direct and indirect taxes already levied against the public," she said.
"Demanding further taxes to fund the same objective is tantamount to shifting the burden of delivery from the state to the public."
The league said the ANC had resolved at its 52nd national conference on "the promotion of affordable public transport, the expansion of rail logistics and the reversal of the apartheid spatial legacy".
"E-tolling does not in any way speak to this vision of affordable public transport. It remains fragmented, unreliable and unsafe, particularly for young women."
"The ANCYL is vehemently opposed to the tariffs as announced by SA National Roads Agency," secretary Ayanda Kasa-Ntsobi said in a statement.
"We demand that its implementation is not just postponed but that is shelved immediately."
She said the tariffs were "unjustifiably expensive" and not affordable to the working class and the poor.
"There is nothing fair or equitable about the proposed tolling system."
At the hearing, the league submitted that the system would have an adverse effect on economic growth.
"The state has a responsibility to fund infrastructure development and maintenance through direct and indirect taxes already levied against the public," she said.
"Demanding further taxes to fund the same objective is tantamount to shifting the burden of delivery from the state to the public."
The league said the ANC had resolved at its 52nd national conference on "the promotion of affordable public transport, the expansion of rail logistics and the reversal of the apartheid spatial legacy".
"E-tolling does not in any way speak to this vision of affordable public transport. It remains fragmented, unreliable and unsafe, particularly for young women."
