"...the tolls will create jobs". The biggest lie ever. While the proceeds are paid to their foreign masters?!

The ANC government is selling the same lie regarding fracking in the Karoo. The only jobs that will be created is low paid labourer jobs and for the lucky ones maybe a job as a truck driver. All this while the environment is being poisoned. By the time these gas wells have been exploited (5-10 years) the landscape would have been turned into a cesspit that will not sustain any life. The temporary jobs will be gone and the people would have to be relocated, placing even more pressure on scarce resources.

More sustainable is the KAT (kilometre array) and radio telescope system to be built at Carnarvon and Sutherland in the Karoo. These would create long term jobs and will generate billions in direct investment to RSA. Actually the proposed fracking would also adversely affect the radio telescope program.

Someone has to teach the ministers in government the principles of cause and effect.