The Treasury has now - not before time - clarified its estimates of the costs of e-tolling and now they are
well below those used by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) in its April court application, which relied strongly on the argument that the cost of e-toll collections amounted R20bn.
In a bid to soften the blow for regular users, the government had set a cap of R550 a month per user and is quoted as saying: "Our information is that less than 5% of users are reaching that cap. Toll fees for most people are about R250 a month or below."
They really do not get it, do they?
Every motorist and every trucking company
already pays, via the fuel levy in the fuel price, for new roads and road maintenance - and they do not want to pay R550 to use the road, nor R250... in fact,
not even a cent extra.
It's fitting that in time for World Environment Week, the
GBCSA has launched its Green Lease Toolkit, which they co-developed with the South African Property Owners' Association (SAPOA). The kit was officially launched at the SAPOA International Convention & Property Exhibition in Durban.
So you think
you own that mobile? Wrong! If Simon Campbell-Young is correct,
you won't own your mobile in future - it will own you.
Finally, and this will make car dealers happy... our motoring editor Henrie Geyser reports that
new car sales accelerated to an eight-month high in May, and he also gets "buzzy" on the new BMW ActiveHybrid 5, which he reckons
floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
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FreshFruitportal.com reports that South African avocado exporters are reeling after their shipments clashed with Peru's avocado exports, flooding the European market. 
The Competition Appeal Court (CAC) has approved the intermediate merger between Pioneer, a US-based international developer and supplier of plant genetics and Pannar, a family firm based in KwaZulu Natal, subject to several conditions. The merger parties had appealed against the outright prohibition of the proposed merger by the commission in 2010, and again by the tribunal at the end of 2011. 
Five crafters from an east coast resort near East London are helping to assess the readiness of the South African market for bamboo products as development financier, the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC), continues with the implementation of one of its strategic agro-processing initiatives, bamboo. 
President Jacob Zuma says both the right to dignity as well as the right to freedom of speech must be upheld and that no right is superior to other rights. 
