All tolled out

E-tolls, is the topic overdone? Hmmm, I reckon that for as long as government is trying to dig deeper into our pockets we'll complain, and complain we must. 

To hell with rolling over and accepting it, fok! SANRAL wasn't even kind enough to offer us the proverbial tub of vaseline to ease the pain. Even after all the strikes, pettitions, legal actions and news paper articles written in uproar they still went ahead and screwed us. Leaving our beloved friends the taxi drivers to go free.

So what do we do now?

I for one am not purchasing a silly piece of plastic designed to steal my money at every beep. So SANRAL has opted to dish out invoices at an alarming rate to anyone and everyone, from babies to the deceased and every poor soul in between. Not to mention the SMS being sent out where peoples details have been given out without prior consent, gone are the days where "personal details" meant something.

I  was recently the proud recipient of a six page invoice to the hefty price of R14.00, there must be some paper company out there making a killing.

Let’s look at the accuracy of this amazing system. If SANRAL can issue their silly little penalties to infants, dead people and one’s who don’t even reside in Johannesburg, what’s stopping us from paying their fines into non-existent accounts?