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Integrating transport modes would enhance accessibility and efficiency for people of varying income levels.
BUS SERVICES

A daily battle: Commuters still suffer from apartheid spatial planning

For many people in South Africa, getting to work on time is a daily struggle which costs them a chunk of their earnings.

  • Phano Liphoto
5 min read
Shunt: With the train service dysfunctional, most carless Capetonians rely on minibus taxis. The taxi industry is in partnerships with local and provincial government but some fear taxis will lose out in the City of Cape Town’s transport plan. Photo: ER Lombard/Gallo Images
CAPE AMALGAMATED TAXI ASSOCIATION

Taxi wars: How does Cape Town’s public transport system actually work?

Twenty-two percent of Capetonians use minibus taxis, but the city’s transport model will reduce this

  • Eunice Masson
7 min read
CAPE AMALGAMATED TAXI ASSOCIATION

Cape Town routes being monitored after taxi boss shot dead

Fears of renewed taxi violence are sparked after the body of a leader of the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association was found on sand dunes near Khayelitsha

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
BHEKI CELE

Concern for safety of Cape Town’s bus commuters intensifies

The City of Cape Town has called on the police and transport ministers to establish a police unit to investigate public transportation crimes

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read