deputy speaker in nineteen ninety one the supreme court of appeal ruled in favour of the johannesburg city council in an action brought by a very courageous city council to interdict the south african roads board from tolling the n_letter one three known as the southern bypass from uncle charlie’s in the west to the rand airport in the east what is important is that the court granted the interdict because the audi auteram partem principle had not been applied that means that the council had not been given an opportunity to be heard regarding the consequences of the proposed tolling this toll road was then stopped the acdp believes that the present tolling project was also