Finance Minister Tito Mboweni

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said on Wednesday during his interim budget speech that the offending e-toll project will continue and consumers will be held responsible for the costs, with payments now being tightened and regulated. The people of the Central Transvaal will have to fall in love with the fact that Minister is not prepared to abandon the e-toll system.

The government will continue its strategy of keeping consumers accountable for the cost of maintaining Gauteng’s highways. The ANC’s policy of the user must apparently pay money only in the case of e-tolls applied on certain roads.

He further said that it is because of consumers who fail to support this project that the province’s roads are deteriorating further. “We can’t maintain the network.”

“I encourage South Africa to please settle their accounts. We need to establish a culture of payment because the government’s services can only co
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The Treasury has released dreadful news in a report indicating the breakdown of chief directors at the department.

Figures by Tito Mboweni indicate that of the 55 chief directors there are only seven white men and ten white women.

The other posts are filled by 25 black men and women, six coloured’s and seven Indians.

This means that only 30.9% of jobs are filled by whites while only one white holds a director-general’s post.

The report is considered by experts to be one of the main reasons why the country’s economic situation will deteriorate further in 2019.

With Ramaphosa’s inability to make Eskom and other state-owned industries profitable, the year is set to deliver dark times.

Photo – Minister Tito Mboweni
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