Sanral believes there are ‘constitutional issues of great public importance’ at stake, if it is not allowed to toll sections of the N1 and N2 in the Winelands, notes a Cape Argus report. The agency is digging in its heels to proceed with the project by filing for leave to appeal the matter in the Constitutional Court. This is despite losing another round in the four-and-a-half year battle against the City of Cape Town in the SCA last month that found Sanral’s decision-making process to be flawed.

Sanral acting CE Koos Smit claims that at the heart of the appeal is the question of condonation of ‘an unreasonable delay’ on the part of the city in filing its review application in the Western Cape High Court in 2012. The project had been in the making for more than a decade by then. ‘It is therefore beneficial for the highest court in the land to decide on these issues. There is a reasonable prospect that the Constitutional Court will come to a different decision,’ he is reported to have said.

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