Transport minister must develop a plan to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers as violent attacks continue
Settlement talks for fired workers have stalled again after employer Mega Express skipped scheduled negotiations for a fifth consecutive time.
Gauteng education minister Barbara Creecy says at least 203 of 485 buses in the province’s scholar transport programme are unroadworthy.
Thousands of Durban pupils were left stranded on Monday morning as a new bus operator was unable start rounds as scheduled owing to a legal challenge.
The ANC in KZN has described the suspension of Durban’s bus service as unacceptable, and has called on the government urgently sort it out.
SA Roadlink has offered to send its entire fleet of vehicles to government testing centres, the company said on Tuesday.
A fire on a Putco bus was extinguished by the quick action of its driver, a Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson said on Thursday.
KwaZulu-Natal transport minister Bheki Cele on Thursday called national bus operator SA Roadlink a ”killing machine” and ”a coffin on wheels”.
At least five SA Roadlink buses were impounded along KwaZulu-Natal’s busy N3 highway on the weekend, the Transport Department said on Monday.
National bus operator SA Roadlink had its licence to operate in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) withdrawn on Wednesday, the province’s transport minister said.
At least 19 buses belonging to Durban’s troubled municipal bus service were set alight in the early hours of Friday morning, police said.
Commuters torched 21 Putco buses early on Monday on Moloto Road in KwaMhlanga. Putco said it would cost about R36-million to replace the buses.
At least 13 people were killed on Friday when a chartered bus carrying Vietnamese churchgoers plunged off a highway bridge in Texas.
A group of angry commuters burnt down two buses and damaged another 10 in Brits because the buses had run out of diesel, police said on Thursday.
