NATIONAL NEWS - Anti-tax abuse lobbyists Outa’s Wayne Duvenage has debunked the DA’s claim that e-tolls were behind the recent fuel price hike, which as of yesterday went up to almost R16 per litre of petrol.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane lamented the massive consumer blow while on a taxi ride at the Noord Taxi Rank in Johannesburg, saying the poor, who rode taxis and depended on affordable transport would be the most affected.
Maimane said: “The state committed itself to this e-tolls project. Now they have to pay it back, so (the) only other way they can do it is to increase the taxation for consumers so that they pay for vanity projects.
“It is ANC policies that have ensured that we end up at R16 a litre‚ the highest it has been since 1994. We all expect things to go up‚ but at the level that the ANC is going‚ who knows what other pressures they are going to put on the people of this country.”
