"Dear Ministers Mbalula and Godongwana

As a concerned citizen I urge you, and the government, to scrap funding for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) through e-tolls with immediate effect. The current model is onerous on motorists in the province who already contribute to state revenue through Personal Income Tax, VAT and, importantly, through the General Fuel Levy (GFL).

Consumers in South Africa are embattled and struggling to make ends meet; the cost of living is now higher than it has ever been and there is no more left to extract from citizens.

Through my signing of this petition, I am supporting calls on government to reconsider its allocation of state resources, and to rather allocate funding for the GFIP from existing revenue streams, such as ring-fencing a portion of the existing GFL for this purpose, and/or redirecting funds from, for instance, the huge salaries and bonusses paid to executives at poorly run State-Owned Enterprises.

I support the Automobile Association’s (AA) view that too much of government’s revenue is redirected incorrectly and for purposes other than the upliftment of our society. For this reason, I again urge you not to continue with e-tolls but to rather scrap the system, cancel all debt owed to it, and to reimburse those who have already paid. I believe this to be only equitable way forward. No alternative means of funding for the GFIP will work, and I will demonstrate my resistance of such systems through continued non-payment thereof.

Yours

(YOUR NAME)

(YOUR SIGNATURE)"