{"id":238007,"date":"2026-07-02T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-scraps-toll-gate-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:25:53","slug":"namibia-govt-scraps-toll-gate-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-scraps-toll-gate-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Scraps Toll Gate Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Works and transport minister Veikko Nekundi says the government has rejected plans to introduce toll gates on roads across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Nekundi says there is no government policy to introduce e-tolls and that only ministers can announce government policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;There is no such policy of the government. When I was the deputy minister of works and transport, under the able leadership of John Mutorwa, there was a study that was done about e-tolls. Under his leadership, we rejected the e-tolls and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020517.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works and transport minister Veikko Nekundi says the government has rejected plans to introduce toll gates on roads across the country. Nekundi says there is no government policy to introduce e-tolls and that only ministers can announce government policies. &#8220;There is no such policy of the government. When I was the deputy minister of works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,14016,4357,4706,724,257,7586,22788,254,11260],"class_list":["post-238007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gate","tag-govt","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-scraps","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}