OUTA to proceed with e-toll appeal

At a legal meeting with their attorneys on Monday the 7th of January, OUTA agreed to proceed with its application to  appeal the judgement by Judge Vorster handed down on 13 December 2012.

OUTA to proceed with e-toll appeal


The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) has previously highlighted their concerns regarding the poor judgement but are now confident that this judgement will be overturned.

While the legal e-toll debate has become very technical, road users must not be distracted from the simple fact that the urban e-toll scheme proposed by SANRAL remains an unacceptably expensive and inefficient way of funding infrastructure. In addition, both Government and SANRAL have not yet presented any convincing plan for alternative public transport and secondary road capacity, to accommodate current GFIP road users in order to try and decongest the highways. Further, the key argument of ‘user pay’ adopted by Government, has been found to be logically flawed by applying both various tariff exemptions and caps. Against this backdrop, OUTA again calls on Government to make public the GFIP Inter Ministerial Committee e-toll recommendation’s which were presented to Cabinet and enabled SANRAL to proceed with e-tolls.

OUTA’s decision to proceed with the appeal has been taken after in depth discussion by its supporters and support from the public, however, the ability to proceed with the appeal will depend on further much needed financial contributions from both the South African business community and the public.




OUTA is a proudly South African civil action organisation, that is purely crowd funded. Our work is supported by ordinary citizens who are passionate about holding government accountable and ensuring our taxes are used to the benefit of all South Africans.

OUTA files papers for leave to appeal e-toll judgement
Following the decision taken by OUTA’s representatives on 7 January 2013, to proceed with an application to seek leave to appeal the high court judgement, OUTA’s application which contains the reasons and grounds for the appeal was lodged on Tuesday, 8 January 2013.