Plans for new toll roads around Cape Town, and in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, are set to be shelved.
A "well-placed senior government source" told a weekend newspaper that these projects -- which included the second phase of the Gauteng freeway improvement project -- would not go ahead, after mass protests organised by Cosatu last week.
The only new toll road which will proceed, will be on the N2 along the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape, but only two toll booths would be built, one at each end of the road, so local traffic would not have to pay.
The source said however that the Gauteng tolling scheme would not be scrapped completely.
