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/ 7 September 2009
A police task team was working ”24/7” to catch the gunmen who murdered the deputy president of Santaco, Vaal Rand police said on Monday.
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/ 2 September 2009
The SA National Taxi Council on Wednesday distanced itself from a bus rapid transit shooting incident in Soweto which left two people wounded.
As commuters reported disruptions to taxi services in Johannesburg on Monday, Santaco said it planned to discuss its ”options” after the BRT launch.
The Rea Vaya coaches were the new celebrities in town as they completed their first journey from central Johannesburg to Soweto on Sunday.
Taxi operators will meet on Monday to discuss the launch of the bus rapid transport system, the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) said on Saturday.
The taxi strike against the launch of the Bus Rapid Transit system is still on, said the South African National Taxi Council on Friday.
Jacob Zuma made the most of his last few days out of government, criticising the Department of Transport at the SA taxi council’s summit on Monday.
The bus rapid transit system must be stopped completely, South African National Taxi Council president Andrew Mthembu said on Monday.
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/ 27 February 2009
The South African National Taxi Council wants to ”reopen” the taxi industry in place of the bus-rapid transit system, according to media reports.
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/ 13 November 2008
The taxi industry is under threat and needs to unite or its businesses will fail, the South African National Taxi Council said on Thursday.
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has adopted a ”wait-and-see” approach towards the taxi-recapitalisation programme pending the outcome of ongoing talks with the government. ”Once that is done we will be going back to management to decide on how to move forward,” said Santaco on Wednesday.
The taxi industry on Wednesday placed ”on hold” its participation in the government’s programme to replace old, unsafe taxis with safer vehicles. The South African National Taxi Council said it would not continue with the multibillion-rand taxi-recapitalisation programme as long as its concerns were not addressed.
The South African National Taxi Council launched a ”taxi pledge” on Monday. The spotlight has been on taxi violence recently after a 25-year-old woman was stripped and assaulted by taxi drivers at Johannesburg’s Noord Street taxi rank because she was wearing a miniskirt.
Minibus-taxi commuters should brace themselves for an increase in taxi fares due to the increase in the petrol price, the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) said on Tuesday. ”We are pressed and we can no longer afford petrol prices. We are forced to put our hands in the commuters’ pockets,” said Santaco general secretary Philip Taaibosch.
A national taxi body is to apologise to the woman who was sexually assaulted at Johannesburg’s Noord Street taxi rank last month. ”We would like publicly apologise to her … we just want to meet her,” said South African National Taxi Council secretary general Philip Taaibosch in Johannesburg on Friday.