E-tolls and the arms deal:another play,same actors

Gauteng's e-tolling project may be on hold, but, as CHRIS GIBBONS reports, close similarities to the arms deal mean it shouldn't be left there

Chris Dover is an Englishman, around 50 years of age, who lives and works in the southern Swedish city of Jšnkšping, where he is employed as a bid manager by a company called Kapsch TrafficCom AB.

You may have heard of Kapsch TrafficCom. It is the Austrian company at the centre of the Gauteng e-tolling project, and which will make several billion Rand over the lifetime of the project. Its website says "Kapsch TrafficCom specialises in technology, solutions and services for the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) market." It's a division of the much larger Kapsch Group, which has about 5,000 employees around the world.

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