‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war
Brave new minibus taxi world: Cashless and taxed
The fuel-powered taxi has been given a second life by retrofitting it with electric propulsion
The headlines vilifying one group of drivers miss the point about an important road safety report.
Taxi boss Mandla Gcaba went on radio at the weekend to deny his taxis would be used to shuttle protesters to support his cousin, Jacob Zuma
The transport minister presented to the ANC’s top body a proposal to establish a bank for taxi operators and to subsidise the industry
Forty-three people were shot dead in the first six months of this year in the Western Cape’s intractable taxi violence, while close to 100 have been arrested and 40 are on court rolls in connection with the conflict
Mediclinic workers say the company is not taking responsibility for a Covid-19 outbreak at a Pretoria hospital
The virus will lose if the government and high-profile people communicate effectively the reasons for restrictions and the compromises that have been made
It is clear that the democratic government has failed the taxi industry, not only now during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for decades.
If the government has money to bail out the aviation, energy and broadcasting industries, why can it not help this anchor of our economy?
Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown have continued to tear through profits in the taxi industry, requiring the sector to formulate a new approach for how it operates, even beyond the pandemic
The drivers who are the bedrock of the public transport system are often paid less than the sectoral determination stipulates
South Africa’s apathetic attitude to plastic use requires an intervention — but what would work here?
In a renewed crackdown, taxis and buses that ignore safety rules are being taken off the country’s roads
South African drivers like to make up their own rules
The queue marshal and the taxi owner: Snapshots from the life and times of the taxi
Taxi council distances its members from the violence, claiming the death of Siyabonga Ngcobo was a fight between Uber and Taxify drivers
An internal Ekurhuleni report reveals that a staggering escalation of costs were approved
The EU’s top court ruled on Wednesday that Uber is an ordinary transportation company instead of an app and should be regulated as such
Calling the transport minister a liar, owners want a state subsidy so they can pay their bills
Sao Paulo’s infernal traffic jams have sparked a new app that opens the sky to commuters: Voom, a helicopter taxi service.
They have told the public protector they were confused by regulators and duped by dealerships.
Authorities have known about the vehicles for over a decade, but they are still being sold and they are still on the road.
Government bodies are culpable for fatal crashes after they signed off on illegal conversions of panel vans against the advice of manufacturer Toyota.
An agreement with Moscow authorities stipulates that it will only work with licensed taxi drivers – and allegedly share data with the government.
Suggestions of "taxi violence" have been slammed after a bus was attacked amid outrage that taxi operators were not given the chance to tender.
Rivals say the taxi service is using illicit loopholes to dodge paying tax and other regulations.
A total of 45 700 public transport operators have been exempted from paying e-tolls in Gauteng so far, says the transport department.
Thousands of children catch minibus taxis to school every day. Umbrella organisations dealing with scholar transport aim to make traveling to school safer.
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/ 8 September 2010
The death toll in Wednesday’s taxi crash Diepsloot rose to six when a man and a woman were declared dead on arrival at hospital, said ER24.
The driver of the taxi involved in last week’s horrific Cape Flats level-crossing accident appeared briefly in a magistrate’s court on Tuesday.