Christmas seems to have came too early for me, says a delegate from an ANC’s Gauteng elective conference in Pretoria via an sms messages.
Because I have been saying the ANC must act on e-tolls, they do. This will be the first time that a structure of the ANC has adopted a resolution on e-tolls. That will be the official position of the party from which they will engage on this matter.
The ANC Gauteng re-elected chairman Paul Mashatile, a long-time friend of mine who was instrumental in telling the South African National Road Agency Limited (Sanral) where to get off. The ANC Gauteng elective conference went my way at St George Hotel in Irene, outside Pretoria.
Thanks to news for always raising the issues I have in your letters column.
The charming Mashatile said at the ANC conference in Pretoria that Sanral must know that the ruling party was the one running the country and the government.
You see, Gauteng’s unilateral move – against the wishes of national government – did not just come from a good heart. It is the outcome of the pressure by civil society and an appreciation that the tolls could have, in all likelihood, contributed to the electoral losses for the governing ANC in the province.
But it is a victory for democracy because democracy says: The people shall govern.
My question is: Why was the Gauteng government quiet about e-tolls until the results of the May elections?
