Gauteng’s planned monorail should be kept off taxi routes, the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) said on Friday. Santaco secretary general Philip Taaibosch said there was no agreement between the taxi industry and the government on the planned monorail between Soweto and central Johannesburg.
A strike by taxi drivers in KwaZulu-Natal entered its second day on Tuesday with more reports of intimidation and violence. Provincial transport MEC Bheki Cele said he had received reports from various officials that strikers had resumed their strategy of stoning buses and non-striking taxis.
Dumisani Ndlovu wakes at 4am to start his 15-hour day, seven days a week. Each morning the 45-year-old taxi driver, a father of four, climbs into his minibus with one mission in mind — to reach his target. If he doesn’t complete enough trips and earn enough money for the taxi owner, his wages are docked.
Safety and removing unfit drivers from South Africa’s roads are not the issues behind a two-day minibus taxi strike that started on Monday, organisers said. The strike and a protest march on Monday were to protest against taxi drivers in Gauteng being harassed for not having permits.
JOHANNESBURG police fired stun grenades and towed taxis away after several taxi drivers blockaded West Street in the centre of the city. The drivers blockaded the street during a demonstration involving some 400 people, who were apparently protesting against the murder of National Taxi Drivers’ Association executive member Velaphi Mzuza on Thursday night. Mzuza was […]
MONDAY, 9.30AM A GROUP of 135 members of the Federated Long Distance Taxi Association was arrested at Bushbuckridge on Sunday morning, charged with public violence, theft and assault. The drivers will appear in the local magistrates’ court on Monday morning. They were arrested after preventing taxis from the rival SA Long Distance Taxi Association form […]
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Bus services such as MyCiTi, Putco, Rea Vaya, Gautrain bus service and Algoa Bus Company are among those whose services will be suspended