The controversial e-toll system was thrown into the election mix yesterday as the DA promised to scrap it if the party was elected in Gauteng. The controversial system, which cost the ANC votes in the 2014 elections, remains a thorn in the side of Gauteng motorists.The DA's mayoral candidates for Gauteng, speaking outside Sanral's offices, pleaded with voters to elect them into power, saying a vote for the party was a vote in favour of eliminating the system.The DA's Tshwane mayoral candidate, Solly Msimang, said if the party won Gauteng's highly coveted metropolitan municipalities, the party would launch multiple efforts to disrupt a further rollout of electronic tolling on the province's freeways.Rethink e-tolls, says ANC GautengThe ANC Gauteng provincial general council has called for a rethink on e-tolls at its three-day meeting in Irene that ended yesterday."When we are elected into government we will ensure that there will be no further e-tolling in Gauteng. We will immediately explore legal options available to us to declare an intergovernmental dispute to stop this continued theft from our residents."Our metro police will be battling nyaope instead of standing on the freeway and harassing motorists," said Msimang.Poor and black people the least affected by e-tolls in Gauteng: surveyRich and white people are most affected by e-tolls‚ the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) survey on the quality of life has revealed.The DA has successfully managed to halt Sanral's attempts to toll the N1 and N2 in the Western Cape winelands.The Cape Town High Court ruled last year that the roads agency would have to start from scratch and conduct proper public consultations over the tolling, which the court found Sanral had failed to do.Sanral had planned to toll 180km of freeway along the N1 and N2 west of the R300.OUTA wrong again‚ SANRAL chargesThe SA National Roads Agency has dismissed an assertion by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) that it should be claiming billions rather than just up to R760 million from seven construction companies accused of colluding on infrastructure projects belonging to the agency as a “flight of fantasy”.Msimang told DA supporters that he could not understand "why I have to pay twice for the same road", arguing that the ANC government did not build new freeways but merely "repaved" roads last built by the apartheid regime.Herman Mashaba, the party's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, said: "Give us the mandate on August 3 to fight e-tolls in our cities and in 2019 give our leader Mmusi Maimane the mandate to get rid of e-tolls once and for all."..