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The country’s taxi industry aims to register its own security company and to work in collaboration with the police and the private security sector (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CRIME

Santaco will form security company to ‘clean up’ crime

The country’s taxi industry aims to register its own security company and to work in collaboration with the police and the private security sector

  • Lyse Comins
5 min read
Commuters using minibus taxis will not see tariff increases just yet as taxi associations refrain from fare increases despite rising fuel costs.
CAPE AMALGAMATED TAXI ASSOCIATION

Taxi commuters spared tariff hikes for now, despite fuel price surge

Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape refrain from increasing taxi fares but haven’t ruled out the possibility

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
CAPE TOWN

Cape Town taxi agreement made an order of court

The High Court also dismissed SANTACO’s interdict application

  • Tania Broughton
3 min read
ALAN WINDE

Taxi politics: Santaco, national and local government talks hit deadlock

The national taxi council is seeking legal advice to apply for an urgent interdict for the release of all its impounded vehicles

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Cape Town taxi body backs EFF shutdown call but won’t take part

The South African National Taxi Council says its members can decide if they want to take part in the national shutdown planned for 20 March

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
The country’s taxi industry aims to register its own security company and to work in collaboration with the police and the private security sector (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
FIKILE MBALULA

Mbalula’s ‘bias’ troubles taxi body

The ‘favoured’ South African National Taxi Council has apparently lost members to its rival

  • Melody Emmett
8 min read
DAYLIN MITCHELL

Planned two-day Western Cape taxi strike could cost R9 million a day

Taxi council is threatening a stayaway after the Western Cape government announced the popular Blue Dot pilot programme would be terminated

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.
ZUMAUNREST

Western Cape taxi violence claims more lives, wary residents eye looting in Gauteng and KZN

The ongoing taxi war in the Western Cape claimed the lives of three more people on Tuesday as the province braces itself for the possibility of the looting that has rocked…

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Public transport in Durban, bedevilled by two successive crony contracts, is regarded as wide open for corruption, taxi bosses said, echoing councillor concerns and the call for a commission of inquiry.
BHEKI NTULI

eThekwini commuters pay for council’s contracts

Perhaps a commission of inquiry can shine the spotlight on public transport in Durban, where bus and taxi passengers have to contend with fare increases and disrupted services

  • Greg Ardé
8 min read
On June 6 the high court ordered that Santaco convene a conference to resolve the Western Cape taxi industry’s issues. (Nomfundo Xolo/GroundUp)
CAPE TOWN

Cape Town taxi strike called off

Buses were set alight in Khayelitsha in the early hours of Monday morning, and thousands of commuters were left stranded

  • Mxolisi Mngadi
2 min read
Santaco chief strategic manager Bafana Magagula told the Mail & Guardian that the issuing of permits to multiple taxi associations operating on the same route is the main cause this violence. (Image via SABC)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

​Taxi violence: Santaco decries lack of justice

Santaco blames the transport department’s permit issuing procedures for increased taxi violence

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Ngcobo had recently started working for the ride-hailing agency before being discovered in a boot of a burnt out Chevrolet Aveo
APP

Metered taxis deny involvement in death of Taxify driver

Taxi council distances its members from the violence, claiming the death of Siyabonga Ngcobo was a fight between Uber and Taxify drivers

  • Gemma Ritchie
3 min read
Travel troubles: If it’s not danger in the taxi that women face
ACTIONAID

Women tackle taxi terror

The needs of women must be included in all public transport planning and policy

  • Koketso Moeti
5 min read
INTERNET ACCESS

Taxi commuters happy about free wifi access

Commuters are pleased following the launch of WiTaxi, which will see 1 500 taxis and 50 taxi ranks providing free internet access to passengers.

  • Sapa
2 min read
AIRLINE INDUSTRY

Taxi council changes its flight plans

When big airline operators are losing money it is no wonder that the smaller guys are cautious writes <strong>Phillip de Wet</strong>.

  • Chantelle Benjamin 1
8 min read