Handful of e-toll protesters

PROS AND CONS: Grade 11 and 12 students debated the e-tolling system. PHOTO: Russell Roberts
PROS AND CONS: Grade 11 and 12 students debated the e-tolling system. PHOTO: Russell Roberts

A handful of people were outside Cosatu's Johannesburg headquarters on Friday for a protest against e-tolling.

Dressed in red Cosatu attire they danced in a circle, singing in Zulu: "What you are doing is wrong". One man held a poster reading "Bring back freeway".

Congress of SA Trade Unions Gauteng chairman Phutas Tseki told the group at the entrance of Cosatu House that all organisations involved would meet to discuss the court papers they received on Thursday. Tseki said they would brief the media and the public afterwards.

On Thursday the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court dismissed the union federation's application to protest on the city's highways after the Johannesburg metro police denied it permission.

Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven said after the ruling that the protest would still go ahead.

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