When Gauteng freeway improvement project was approved in 2005, the main question before Cabinet that it had to answer at that time was congestion in our roads and follow up to that was the question of whether we have financial muscle and capacity to basically finance the Gauteng freeway improvement project from the fiscas and the answer was no and therefore the question became, how do we bring private capital
into the fixing of our roads and the e-toll scheme was actually devised which meant that we had to go to the market and basically borrow through Sanral and that particular scheme was actually devised.
I agree with you that because of how it was introduced, technology was ahead of this nation because South Africa is a developing nation. It's like going to the petrol station and replicate what is happening in Europe down here. There will be massive protests where in which you just get in there and fill up your car and you hit the road.
We want to see overalls in the garages, that's what we want to see because we need people to be employed. So, South Africans, we are not ready for the faster system which is quite beneficial which is happening elsewhere at a successful rate and so on. Over and above that, issues of consultation and taken into confidence t be educated but if you were to put a boom in the middle of Midrand, South Africans will never have protested because before you pass to Limpopo you must stop there and pay. There is no option. Boom gate! And, it's called toll plazas and all of that. That's what we actually have.
Now there is a faster growth of congestion in the Cape Town roads more than any other city in the country because the roads are undeveloped. We still have a headache with the Western Cape government to answer the question why should it take me six hours to get to the airport when I leave and need to catch a flight this particular afternoon because I will have to wait and all of that but if I have to catch an early flight, I must actually leave at one o'clock to the airport and leave every other business that I'm doing.
Congestion and congestion we are to actually address so whatever that we are doing in terms of the stimulus package will not be the same as you would have and over and above that because I'm not answering that particular matter we are dealing with and I can see you were trying to smuggle it and so on. We will give you answers in the next two weeks about what needs to happen once Cabinet has actually finalised that.
The biggest headache for us going forward is how we address expansion of our roads, better roads and what the role of private capital is in terms of building new roads so we need to have that conversation going forward so I agree with you.
Question 8: