Through SANRAL, we will be rolling out a new model of routine road maintenance contracts in line with its new transformation policy comprising a total of 130 projects targeted. This will create 8000 jobs per annum or over the duration of the contracts. Similarly, 66 community projects will be rolled out totalling R3,4 billion as part of the community development programme.
Fellow South Africans, we are seized with the process to find a lasting solution to the demand to scrap e-tolls in Gauteng [Applause.] A task team was established, made up of the Department of Transport, SANRAL, the Gauteng Province and National Treasury, to look incisively at all relevant issues and make firm recommendations. The process of engagement is still ongoing and various options towards the resolution of this challenge are being processed by the team. The options being considered also include feasibility of mechanisms through which the debt incurred in the construction of the Gauteng Freeway
Improvement Project, GFIP, can be paid. The team is working tirelessly to ensure that a final report on this matter is tabled before the President by the end of August 2019.
We are mindful of the demand to scrap e-tolls and are therefore looking at solutions that will balance this demand with the need for the country to honour its obligations insofar as the e- tolls debt is concerned. This is the reality we must all be alive to-You are listening to me and then you are going to talk out of turn when I finish here- South Africa as a coastal state has the responsibility of managing a vast coastline -I am addressing the issue you will be verbosing about on this platform, so listen properly and I am being robust about it, you are listening you are hauling, ok let conclude because you are not interested.
Chairperson, it is our singular honour and pleasure to table the Budget Vote No 35 of the Department of Transport for your consideration and adoption by this House.
I thank you