Thank you, Deputy Speaker. In fact, that is exactly the problem, isn't it, Minister: that only 23% are actually using their e-tags on the roads. According to the SA National Roads Agency Limited, Sanral, there are 2,5 million unique drivers and cars operating on the Gauteng freeways. Yet, your answer indicates that only 900 000 have bought e-tags and only 23% of those are actually using them.
The public do not and will not support e-tolls when they know that this Nkandla-run government has wasted their fuel levy money on fire pools, helipads, fast jets for Minister Sisulu, shopping trips to New York, flashing cars in blue-light brigades and repeated bailouts for the SA Airways, SAA.
Sanral has misled the public by claiming that over 1,2 million e-tags have been sold. But we have now heard that there are only 900 000 in operation, and only 23% are actually on the roads. With so few drivers using e-tags, would the Minister not concede that the public are voting with their feet and saying "no", and will you not shut down the unpopular e-toll before everyone votes DA? [Time expired.] [Interjections.]