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Cape Town - Taxes must be paid to the state and not to a political party, says a Fin24 user wants to know if any revenue from e-tolls is finding its way to ANC pockets.
"There is a huge unanswered question: Is there any link between e-toll money and ANC coffers?" asks Gustav Gous.
"If there is any link via-via-via-via to, for instance Chancellor House, then this will constitute the whole e-toll system to be invalid in its entirety. My requests:
1. Please investigate the ANC-Sanral link and provide us citizens with the truth of who owns it really, and benefits financially.
2. Challenge government to state clearly in public that the ANC is not directly or indirectly benefiting financially from e-tolls.
3. Challenge government then to reveal exactly who owns shares and who benefits from the income (ANC or ANC stalwarts?) - in detail through all the front companies.
4. Start a campaign to say people/citizens can only consider paying e-tolls once this pivotal matter is clarified."
People have the right not to pay e-tolls, says Gous, because "a non-ANC supporter cannot be forced to pay money (even indirectly) to strengthen the financial resources of a political party they want to fight in an election".
Where should the money come from?
E-tolls is just another way of stealing from the poor, says Katlego Mamakata, who shares Gous' suspicions about the real beneficiaries of e-tolls."Who is really benefiting if not the ANC and their relatives or friends?" The ANC is just putting their needs ahead of everyone else's, says Mamakata.
Affordability is at the heart of the matter. "As a middle class citizen when you look into your normal budget, you are left with R1 000 or less for the whole month." Where then should the money to pay e-tolls come from, asks Mamakata.
Daleep Baijnath deplores the "rash and incorrect decisions" government has made about e-tolls, and says he will never vote for the ANC again. "Such acts will ensure that the majority of people that voted for the ANC will now look elsewhere to honest and reasonable people – who would listen to the objections of their people who voted them in and to make the correct decisions," says Baijnath.
A Fin24 user who supplies undertakers and funeral parlours with coffins, caskets and equipment says paying e-tolls will add extra charges to people who want to bury their loved ones peacefully and affordably.
"We will not pass on the stress and hardship of a death of a family member with the added stress of e-tolls i.e. more expensive products due to delivery charges, including e-toll costs.... We will not vote ANC. We will see them in court."
Disclaimer: All letters and comments published in MyFin24 have been independently written by members of the Fin24 community. The views are therefore their own and do not necessarily represent those of Fin24.
